DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. NuoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. NuoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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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.

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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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	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hazelcast.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

doc.nuodb.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Hazelcast

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Percona

Initial release

2012

2008

2013

2015

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Java, SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica 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 selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

via In-Memory Engine

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)

Role-based access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users and roles

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