DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Faircom DB vs. Hypertable vs. MongoDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Faircom DB vs. Hypertable vs. MongoDB vs. Rockset

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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.

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

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

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.mongodb.com

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

FairCom Corporation

Hypertable Inc.

MongoDB, Inc

Rockset

Initial release

1979

2009

2019

Current release

V12, November 2020

0.9.8.11, March 2016

6.0.7, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

C++ API
Thrift

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Specific characteristics

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