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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. EJDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. EJDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Newts

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaSoftmotionsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftOpenNMS Group
Initial release2012201020162014
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageCErlangC++Java
Server operating systemshostedserver-lesshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
in-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptTransact SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesno
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLEJDBIBM CloudantMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseNewts
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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