DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GigaSpaces vs. Ingres vs. Splunk vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GigaSpaces vs. Ingres vs. Splunk vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Well established RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.gigaspaces.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.splunk.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Gigaspaces Technologies

Actian Corporation

Splunk Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2000

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2003

2000

Current release

15.5, September 2020

11.2, May 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

via file-system locks

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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