DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sadasengine.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon Web Services

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2021

2006

1992

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

A real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantages

TPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

Available regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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