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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. CockroachDB vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. CockroachDB vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. RRDtool

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  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.CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.cockroachlabs.comwww.dbase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtableoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAlibabaCockroach LabsAsthon TateGoogleTobias Oetiker
Initial release2015197920151999
Current release23.1.1, May 2023dBASE 2019, 20191.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesdynamic schemayesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoNumeric data only
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
dBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLCockroachDBdBASEGoogle Cloud BigtableRRDtool
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