DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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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 stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

ignite.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

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

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2014

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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