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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Kdb vs. Quasardb

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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

High performance Time Series DBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

kx.com

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

code.kx.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

quasardb

Initial release

2010

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2009

Current release

3.6, May 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

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)

rights management via user accounts

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

Available regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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