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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Interbase vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 ScioreLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonEmbarcaderoSTS Soft SCByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2007198420112016
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC#C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)no
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.yesno infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesInterbase Change Viewsnonenone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.yesyesyes
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)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAmazon SimpleDBInterbaseSTSdbTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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