DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb

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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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Widely used open source RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
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Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.memcached.org

www.mysql.com

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Alibaba

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

quasardb

Initial release

2013

2003

1995

2009

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

1.6.27, May 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP 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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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