DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. BigObject vs. EventStoreDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. BigObject vs. EventStoreDB

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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.

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Event Store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.76
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Website

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

impala.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

bigobject.io

www.eventstore.com

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.bigobject.io

developers.eventstore.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Axibase Corporation

BigObject, Inc.

Event Store Limited

Initial release

2013

2015

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

15585

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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