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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Realm vs. Snowflake

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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.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Rank	#129	Overall
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Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

realm.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

realm.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Oracle

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2007

2014

Current release

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Change Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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