DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB

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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.

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.datomic.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Franz Inc.

Cognitect

quasardb

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2012

2009

2013

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.0.7075, December 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

with Federation

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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