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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. openGauss

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. openGauss

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  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.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.92
Rank#195  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasensdb.iogitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release201020172019
Current releaseV123.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC, C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLnoyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureNSDbopenGauss
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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