DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpaceTime

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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.

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

www.graphengine.io

www.postgres-xl.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Mireo

Initial release

2010

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2020

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Linux
macOS

Linux

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

MVCC

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

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

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