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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. EsgynDB vs. HBase vs. RDF4J vs. YugabyteDB

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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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Alibaba

Esgyn

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2015

2008

2004

2017

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

RDF Schemas

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

based on RocksDB

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Available regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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