DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon Redshift vs. RDFox vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon Redshift vs. RDFox vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/neptune

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

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

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2017

2012

2017

2014

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

yes

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

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