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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
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DB-Engines ranking.Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
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 networksOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Widely used RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.90
Rank#197  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.98
Rank#186  Overall
#32  Document stores
#27  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1309.45
Rank#1  Overall
#1  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.oracle.com/­databasewww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaAtos Convergence CreatorsFoundationDBOracle
Initial release2016201319802014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release17036.2.28, November 202023c, September 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
LDAPJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
All languages with LDAP bindings.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoin SQL-layer onlyPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infocell divisionShardingSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan be realized in PL/SQLno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedACID 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.yesyesyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardLDAP bind authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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