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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Datomic vs. Dgraph vs. KeyDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Datomic vs. Dgraph vs. KeyDB vs. LokiJS

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.datomic.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.datomic.comdgraph.io/­docsdocs.keydb.devtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectDgraph Labs, Inc.EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release2012201620192014
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGoC++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoLuaView functions in JavaScript
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono infoPlanned for future releasessimple password-based access control and ACLno
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Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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