DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Spark SQL vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Spark SQL vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Warp 10

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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

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/redshift

spark.apache.org/sql

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Rocket Software

SenX

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

1985

2015

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Python
R
Scala

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

configurable

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

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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