DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Solr vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Solr vs. Tarantool

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

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

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

solr.apache.org

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

1993

2006

2008

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java plugins

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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