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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Bangdb vs. CouchDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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.Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdbbangdb.comcouchdb.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.bangdb.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAlibabaSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2019201220052010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++ErlangErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnono
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL like support with command line toolnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoView functions in JavaScriptView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAmazon DocumentDBBangdbCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"IBM Cloudant
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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