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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. mSQL vs. SAP IQ

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Hughes Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

1994

Current release

4.4, October 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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