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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OrientDB vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OrientDB vs. ScyllaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  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.High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlallegrograph.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreorientdb.orgwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperAlibabaFranz Inc.GoogleOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPScyllaDB
Initial release2004201720102015
Current release8.0, December 20233.2.29, March 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesno infobulk load of XML files possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsJava, Javascriptyes, Lua
Triggersyesyesyes, with Cloud FunctionsHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicewith FederationShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflowno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAllegroGraphGoogle Cloud FirestoreOrientDBScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Knowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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