DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Ehcache vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Ehcache vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

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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 widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
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Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.ehcache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.ehcache.org/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Amazon Web Services

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2007

2009

2021

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JCache

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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)

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