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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Cassandra vs. Graphite vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlcassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestgraphite.readthedocs.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookChris DavisSiteWhere
Initial release2016200820062010
Current release4.1.3, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBCassandraGraphiteSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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Apache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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