DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

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.

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.92
Rank	#195	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#253	Overall
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

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

atoti.io

clickhouse.com

www.gridgain.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

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

docs.atoti.io

clickhouse.com/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Alibaba

ActiveViam

Clickhouse Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2007

2016

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial, open source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

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