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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Solr

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAlibabaCirconus LLC.MicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release2017201419922006
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20199.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava plugins
Triggersyesnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infobut no files for transaction loggingoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLIRONdbLokiJSMicrosoft AccessSolr
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