DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. ArangoDB vs. HBase vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. ArangoDB vs. HBase vs. Solr

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Wide column store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	3.26
Rank	#88	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

arangodb.com

hbase.apache.org

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.arangodb.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

ArangoDB Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2006

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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