DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. EventStoreDB vs. LevelDB vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. EventStoreDB vs. LevelDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.eventstore.com

github.com/google/leveldb

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

developers.eventstore.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Event Store Limited

Google

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2016

2012

2011

2009

Current release

21.2, February 2021

1.23, February 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

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