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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenEdge

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  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.A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Application development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­neptunefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonAmazonGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Progress Software Corporation
Initial release2012201720121984
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesyesno
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Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes
TriggersyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers and groups
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAmazon CloudSearchAmazon NeptuneFirebase Realtime DatabaseOpenEdge
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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