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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Citus vs. Faircom DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  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 warehousingScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.citusdata.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.citusdata.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaFairCom Corporation
Initial release201620101979
Current release8.1, December 2018V12, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCANSI C, C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Data schemeyesyesyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures
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.yesnoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAlibaba Cloud MaxComputeCitusFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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