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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Geode vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  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.Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgalaxybase.comgeode.apache.orgwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgeode.apache.org/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2007201720022006
Current releaseNov 20, November 20211.1, February 20178.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined procedures and functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAmazon SimpleDBGalaxybaseGeodeSadas Engine
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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