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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Cassandra vs. Faircom EDGE vs. InfluxDB vs. Memgraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  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.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlcassandra.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewmemgraph.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookFairCom CorporationMemgraph Ltd
Initial release2008197920132017
Current release4.1.3, July 2023V3, October 20202.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++GoC and C++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL TypesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"File partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infowhen using SQLnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnoACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.simple rights management via user accountsUsers, roles and permissions
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Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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