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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

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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.

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

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

blueflood.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Alibaba

Rackspace

Spotify

Initial release

2013

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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Licensing and pricing models

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