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

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

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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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.immudb.io

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

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Codenotary

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

2020

2014

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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