DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Citus vs. FoundationDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Citus vs. FoundationDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the 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.

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.90
Rank	#197	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#186	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#27	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

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

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.citusdata.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.citusdata.com

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Atos Convergence Creators

FoundationDB

Initial release

2016

2010

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

1703

8.1, December 2018

6.2.28, November 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

some layers support typing

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

MVCC

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

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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