DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.76
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	6.50
Rank	#56	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#5	Search engines

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.hawkular.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.marklogic.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.marklogic.com

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

MarkLogic Corp.

Initial release

2010

2014

2001

Current release

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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