DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. ClickHouse

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. ClickHouse

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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.

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.bigchaindb.com

blueflood.io

clickhouse.com

Technical documentation

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

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

clickhouse.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

DGraph Labs

Rackspace

Clickhouse Inc.

Initial release

2017

2016

2013

2016

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

key based and custom

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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