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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Derby vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Widely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdb.apache.org/­derbywww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software FoundationPerconaPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release20162012199720151989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20233.4.10-2.10, November 201716.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesnorestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesnoyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBCproprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PythonJava Stored ProceduresJavaScriptuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneShardingpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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