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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticssiridb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCloudflareMicrosoftCesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2018201620172001
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoNumeric datano
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoTransact SQLnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyessimple rights management via user accountsno
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLCloudflare Workers KVMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseSiriDBSphinx
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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