DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. CockroachDB vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. CockroachDB vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP HANA

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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.

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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Cockroach Labs

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP

Initial release

2015

1995

1984

2010

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

8.3.0, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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