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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Impala vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Impala vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP IQ

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  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.MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score8.50
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score14.03
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#359  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score3.27
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraimpala.apache.orgboilerbay.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBoiler Bay Inc.SAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release2015201320021994
Current release4.1.0, June 20224.016.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningShardingnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
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.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAmazon AuroraApache ImpalaInfinityDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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