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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb vs. RDFox vs. Realm

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oxfordsemantic.techrealm.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.oxfordsemantic.techrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleCirconus LLC.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release2008201720172014
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20186.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesusing Google App Engineyes, in Luano inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
TriggersyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication using Paxosconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarereplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesnonoyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noRoles, resources, and access typesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLGoogle Cloud DatastoreIRONdbRDFoxRealm
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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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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