DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Drill vs. HBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Drill vs. HBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

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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.

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

drill.apache.org

hbase.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

drill.apache.org/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2008

1992

2000

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

17, July 2015

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C++

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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