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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Graph Engine

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2010

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

.NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL for querying

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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