DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL

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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.

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

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

iotdb.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

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

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

OpenNMS Group

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

Initial release

2018

2014

2021

2011

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native API

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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)

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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