DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SingleStore

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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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Google

SAP, Sybase

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

1987

2013

Current release

16.0

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Using Cloud Dataflow

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate 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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Licensing and pricing models

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