DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Altibase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Snowflake vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Altibase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Snowflake vs. TimesTen

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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.

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

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

altibase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.snowflake.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Alibaba

Altibase

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1999

2018

2014

1998

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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