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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Graphite vs. GridDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Datadata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgriddb.nethive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.griddb.netcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperAlibabaChris DavisToshiba CorporationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM
Initial release2006201320121983 infohost version
Current release5.1, August 20223.1.3, April 202212.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at container levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLGraphiteGridDBHiveIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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