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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Impala vs. Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic

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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.

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

impala.apache.org

www.ehcache.org

www.geomesa.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CCRi and others

Spotify

Initial release

2013

2009

2014

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.10.0, March 2022

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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