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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAlibabaThomas MuellerIBMGoogleApache Software Foundation
Initial release2005201420142012
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.1.12, February 20177.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
JavaJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsPL/SQL, SQL PLnoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersyesyesyesUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLH2IBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBLovefieldPouchDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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