DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Graph Engine vs. InfinityDB vs. TempoIQ vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Graph Engine vs. InfinityDB vs. TempoIQ vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.graphengine.io

boilerbay.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Boiler Bay Inc.

TempoIQ

Teradata

Initial release

2010

2002

2012

2005

Current release

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Licensing and pricing models

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