DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Blueflood vs. ClickHouse vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Blueflood vs. ClickHouse vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

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

blueflood.io

clickhouse.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

clickhouse.com/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Rackspace

Clickhouse Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2013

2016

2014

2009

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

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

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

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 views

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

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

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

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.

none

selectable replication factor

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

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.

yes, using Riak Security

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