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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Impala vs. Blueflood vs. HBase vs. Solr

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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.Analytic DBMS for HadoopScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlimpala.apache.orgblueflood.iohbase.apache.orgsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikihbase.apache.org/­book.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software Foundation
Initial release2013201320082006
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.3.4, January 20219.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes infoCoprocessors in JavaJava plugins
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)optimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLApache ImpalaBluefloodHBaseSolr
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