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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded 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DB-Engines ranking.Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
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.Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.90
Rank#197  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.98
Rank#186  Overall
#32  Document stores
#27  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorygithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaAtos Convergence CreatorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFoundationDB
Initial release2016200820132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release17037.2.4, September 20126.2.28, November 202010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesno infosome layers support typingyes
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.yesyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionssupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
LDAPJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
All languages with LDAP bindingsC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infocell divisionShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardLDAP bind authenticationPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAtos Standard Common RepositoryDrizzleFoundationDBPostgres-XL
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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