DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Blueflood vs. ClickHouse vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Blueflood vs. ClickHouse vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright

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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

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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Website

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

blueflood.io

clickhouse.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

Technical documentation

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

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

clickhouse.com/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Alibaba

Rackspace

Clickhouse Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

2013

2016

2010

2005

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) 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

key based and custom

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

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

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 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.

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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