DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. MySQL

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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.

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.enterprisedb.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

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

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba

EnterpriseDB

Elastic

FatCloud

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2005

2010

2012

1995

Current release

14, December 2021

8.6, January 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

via applications

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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