DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. GigaSpaces vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. GigaSpaces vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. YDB

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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 data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rocksdb.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Gigaspaces Technologies

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2000

2006

2013

2019

Current release

15.5, September 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Role-based access control

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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