DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TypeDB

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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

Well established RDBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.92
Rank	#195	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#9	Object oriented DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

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

drill.apache.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

typedb.com

Technical documentation

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

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Vaticle

Initial release

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1989

2016

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

12.0, July 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C++

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Ingres Replicator

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Synchronous replication via raft

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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