DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. EJDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hypertable vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. EJDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hypertable vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines 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.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Alibaba

Softmotions

Google

Hypertable Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2010

2009

1992

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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