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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.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#223	Overall
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Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
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Score	93.81
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

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

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2009

Current release

2.7.5, January 2024

11.3.2, February 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

in enterprise version only

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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