DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CouchDB vs. Fauna

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CouchDB vs. Fauna

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

couchdb.apache.org

fauna.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.fauna.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Fauna, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2005

2014

Current release

1703

3.3.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

Atomic execution of specific operations

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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