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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hypertable

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

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Score	0.45
Rank	#250	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	2.11
Rank	#123	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/35387.htm

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Hypertable Inc.

Initial release

2016

2007

2009

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

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

All columns are indexed automatically

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

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

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

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.

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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