DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ReductStore vs. SpaceTime vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ReductStore vs. SpaceTime vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.reduct.store/docs

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

ReductStore LLC

Mireo

Tencent

Initial release

1989

2023

2020

2013

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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