DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GridGain vs. Linter

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GridGain vs. Linter

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Name

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

RDBMS for high security requirements

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gridgain.com

linter.ru

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

GridGain Systems, Inc.

relex.ru

Initial release

2016

2012

2007

1990

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial, open source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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