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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. DolphinDB vs. MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. DolphinDB vs. MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. TempoIQ

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.dolphindb.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaDolphinDB, IncMonetDB BVTempoIQ
Initial release201820042014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2012
Current releasev2.00.4, January 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++CC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple authentication-based access control
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLDolphinDBMonetDBPostgres-XLTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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