DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. GridGain vs. HBase vs. NCache vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. GridGain vs. HBase vs. NCache vs. Snowflake

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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.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.gridgain.com

hbase.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Alachisoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2007

2008

2005

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.3.4, January 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Coprocessors in Java

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Notifications

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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