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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Citus vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

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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 hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.citusdata.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.citusdata.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2010

2013

1993

Current release

8.1, December 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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