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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Impala vs. Dragonfly vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Impala vs. Dragonfly vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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 HadoopA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDragonflyDB team and community contributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release201320232010
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesscheme-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysno
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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