DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL

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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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

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

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

2007

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

14.1, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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 type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

configurable

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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