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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  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 fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreAnalytic DBMS for Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.html
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera
Initial release201620072013
Current release4.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduce
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberos
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAlibaba Cloud Table StoreAmazon SimpleDBApache Impala
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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