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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Fauna vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. QuestDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Widely used open source RDBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlfauna.comwww.mysql.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.fauna.comdev.mysql.com/­docwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaFauna, Inc.Oracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)QuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2014199519842014
Current release8.3.0, January 20247.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabrichorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes, on a single nodeACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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.yesnoyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBMySQLOracle RdbQuestDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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