DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Bangdb vs. MySQL vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Bangdb vs. MySQL vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

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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.

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Widely used open source RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

bangdb.com

www.mysql.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

1995

2014

2020

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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