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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  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 HadoopSpatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlimpala.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCNRSSpotifyMicrosoft
Initial release2013201320142012
Current release4.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infobased on H2nono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes infobased on H2yesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes infobased on H2Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLApache ImpalaH2GISHeroicMicrosoft Azure Table Storage
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