DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Impala vs. ClickHouse vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Impala vs. ClickHouse vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

A 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 complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

impala.apache.org

clickhouse.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

clickhouse.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Alibaba

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Clickhouse Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2013

2016

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL for querying

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

3 replicas

selectable replication factor

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

TPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing models

Available regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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