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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. AntDB vs. Apache Impala vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. AntDB vs. Apache Impala vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  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.A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsMicrosofts flagship relational DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.92
Rank#195  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#342  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score807.76
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlimpala.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-server
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-server
DeveloperAlibabaAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaMicrosoft
Initial release201320131989
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.7.6, April 2024SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL2016 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlytables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
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.yesyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberossimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAntDBApache ImpalaInfluxDBMicrosoft SQL Server
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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