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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. etcd vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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.A distributed reliable key-value storeGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqletcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAlibabaGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20072010
Current release3.4, August 2019GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetErlang
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes, watching key changesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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