DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Ingres vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Ingres vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It 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

Well established RDBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Actian Corporation

Oracle

TempoIQ

Initial release

2016

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2011

2012

Current release

11.2, May 2022

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Ingres Replicator

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

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