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

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
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.An embedded key-value store for Go.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.76
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#188  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmapple.github.io/­foundationdbspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAlibabaFoundationDBSpotify
Initial release201320132014
Current release6.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++Java
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono infosome layers support typingyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Go.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLBoltDBFoundationDBHeroic
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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