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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Quasardb vs. YugabyteDB

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.92
Rank	#195	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#108	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.mysql.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

quasar.ai

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Alibaba

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Percona

quasardb

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

1995

2015

2009

2017

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.14.1, January 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

consistent hashing

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

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

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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