DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Realm vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Realm vs. Riak KV

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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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/redshift

realm.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

realm.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2009

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

links between data sets can be stored

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

yes, using Riak Security

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