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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Solr vs. Teradata Aster vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Solr vs. Teradata Aster vs. Valentina Server

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 dataA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LucenePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqldruid.apache.orgsolr.apache.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software FoundationTeradataParadigma Software
Initial release2012200620051999
Current release29.0.1, April 20249.6.1, May 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL for queryingSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava pluginsR packagesyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesnoyes
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 systemyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLApache DruidSolrTeradata AsterValentina Server
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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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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