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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Dgraph vs. LokiJS vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

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

iotdb.apache.org

dgraph.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

dgraph.io/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2018

2016

2014

2015

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Data scheme

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 views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JavaScript API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Planned for future releases

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Licensing and pricing models

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