DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. ClickHouse vs. CockroachDB vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. ClickHouse vs. CockroachDB vs. HBase

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Name

Description

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

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

clickhouse.com

www.cockroachlabs.com

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

clickhouse.com/docs

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Clickhouse Inc.

Cockroach Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2016

2007

2016

2015

2008

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

24.1.0, May 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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 for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Role-based access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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