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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.76
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score6.10
Rank#58  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.48
Rank#260  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.cockroachlabs.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAlibabaCockroach LabsGoogleSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release201520152013
Current release23.1.1, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJavaScript
Triggersyesnonono
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 RAFTShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication using RAFTInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
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)Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-row operationsDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple password-based access control
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