DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. jBASE vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. jBASE vs. SingleStore

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Name

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.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.exasol.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Alibaba

Exasol

Google

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2000

2010

1991

2013

Current release

5.7

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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