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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. FoundationDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. FoundationDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. YDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
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.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaFoundationDBApache Software FoundationYandex
Initial release20132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122019
Current release6.2.28, November 202010 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesnoyes
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.yesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlyyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLFoundationDBPostgres-XLPouchDBYDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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