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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. NSDb vs. SingleStore vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlnsdb.iowww.singlestore.comswaydb.simer.auwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.singlestore.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaSingleStore Inc.Simer PlahaTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2017201320181987
Current release8.5, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaC++, GoScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux info64 bit version requiredFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesnoyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Scala
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infohash partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operationsyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLNSDbSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSwayDBTransbase
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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