DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. GigaSpaces vs. Ingres vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. GigaSpaces vs. Ingres vs. OpenSearch

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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

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

Well established RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.gigaspaces.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Gigaspaces Technologies

Actian Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2017

2000

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2021

Current release

15.5, September 2020

11.2, May 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

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.

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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)

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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