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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Impala vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. mSQL vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Impala vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. mSQL vs. Riak KV

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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 HadoopCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlimpala.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGoogleHughes TechnologiesOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2013201719942009
Current release4.1.0, June 20224.4, October 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++CErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsnoErlang
Triggersyesnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceUsing Cloud Dataflownoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.noyes, using Riak Security
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