DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. MonetDB vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. MonetDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.geomesa.org

www.monetdb.org

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CCRi and others

MonetDB BV

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2014

2004

2009

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

depending on storage layer

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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