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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Kinetica vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Kinetica vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.92
Rank#195  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.kinetica.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibabaKineticaGooglequasardb
Initial release201220142009
Current release7.1, August 20212.1.12, February 20173.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infousing MemoryDByes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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