DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Newts vs. Splice Machine vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Newts vs. Splice Machine vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/redshift

opennms.github.io/newts

splicemachine.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

OpenNMS Group

Splice Machine

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

Current release

3.1, March 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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