DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Quasardb vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Quasardb vs. TigerGraph

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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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/redshift

quasar.ai

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

quasardb

Initial release

2016

2012

2009

2017

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Role-based access control

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