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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Druid vs. EXASOL vs. Quasardb

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Distributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqldruid.apache.orgwww.exasol.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsExasolquasardb
Initial release201220002009
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL for queryingyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationwith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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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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