DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Interbase vs. MySQL vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Interbase vs. MySQL vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

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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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used open source RDBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.mysql.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Embarcadero

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Mikio Hirabayashi

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1984

1995

2020

2019

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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