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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. YugabyteDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.bigchaindb.comwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ehcache.org/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperAlibabaTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSpotifyYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2016200920142017
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes infoby using Terracotta ServeryesBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoyes
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLBigchainDBEhcacheHeroicYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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