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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Cassandra vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  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 accessFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlcassandra.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmemgraph.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyMemgraph Ltd
Initial release2008198320142017
Current release4.1.3, July 202319.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
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
PHP.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"noneShardingSharding 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 possibleSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesMulti-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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnonoACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, 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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers, roles and permissions
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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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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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