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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. Hawkular Metrics

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlaltibase.comdrill.apache.orgwww.hawkular.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdrill.apache.org/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaAltibaseApache Software FoundationCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release2014199920122014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesANSI SQL-92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
C++Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceno
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AlaSQLAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAltibaseApache DrillHawkular Metrics
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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