DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Brytlyt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Brytlyt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#292	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

brytlyt.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Brytlyt

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

2005

Current release

5.0, August 2023

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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