DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FatDB vs. OpenSearch vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FatDB vs. OpenSearch vs. XTDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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 fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

FatCloud

Amazon Web Services

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

2021

2019

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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 search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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