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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  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 GreenplumDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbcloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupCognitectSoftmotionsGoogle
Initial release2016201220122015
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-lesshosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idno
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared librarygRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersyesyesBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoAtomic single-row operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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