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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Citus vs. Datomic vs. Dgraph vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Citus vs. Datomic vs. Dgraph vs. LokiJS

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.citusdata.comwww.datomic.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.citusdata.comdocs.datomic.comdgraph.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectDgraph Labs, Inc.
Initial release2010201220162014
Current release8.1, December 20181.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJava, ClojureGoJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Clojure
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoTransaction FunctionsnoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersyesyesBy using transaction functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSynchronous replication via Raftnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono infoPlanned for future releasesno
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLCitusDatomicDgraphLokiJS
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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