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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. GigaSpaces vs. ObjectBox vs. TypeDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Object oriented DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.gigaspaces.comobjectbox.iotypedb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.objectbox.iotypedb.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAlibabaGigaspaces TechnologiesObjectBox LimitedVaticleVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2000201720162011
Current release15.5, September 20202.26.3, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++JavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary native APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersyesyes, event driven architecturenonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding infoby using CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
online/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeperno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship featureno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlyesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressBased on Windows Authentication
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLGigaSpacesObjectBoxTypeDB infoformerly named GraknVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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