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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Impala vs. H2 vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Impala vs. H2 vs. TerarkDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingAnalytic DBMS for HadoopFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeimpala.apache.orgwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputeimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaThomas MuellerByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2016201320052016
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAlibaba Cloud MaxComputeApache ImpalaH2TerarkDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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