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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. BigObject vs. OpenQM vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.77
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#333  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#278  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbigobject.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.bigobject.iowww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaBigObject, Inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release201519932013
Current release3.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.yesyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesLuayesJavaScript
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelsimple password-based access control
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