DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Splunk vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Splunk vs. TerminusDB

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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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
RDF store

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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	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gigaspaces.com

www.splunk.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Gigaspaces Technologies

Splunk Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

2003

2018

Current release

15.5, September 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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)

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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