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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. RethinkDB vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. RethinkDB vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.92
Rank#195  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlrethinkdb.comwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAlibabaThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Snowflake Computing Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release200920142019
Current release2.4.1, August 20203.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsno
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding inforange basedyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLRethinkDBSnowflakeTDengine
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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TDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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High Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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