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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Coveo vs. H2 vs. NCache

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  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.Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqldrill.apache.orgwww.coveo.comwww.h2database.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.coveo.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationCoveoThomas MuellerAlachisoft
Initial release2012201220052005
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.2.220, July 20235.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C++C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyesnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourcegranular access controls, API key management, content filtersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLApache DrillCoveoH2NCache
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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