DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Blueflood vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Blueflood vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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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.

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

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

arangodb.com

blueflood.io

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.arangodb.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

ArangoDB Inc.

Rackspace

Microsoft

Tencent

Initial release

2012

2013

1989

2013

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

based on Cassandra

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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