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

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

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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.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

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

www.mcobject.com

rocksdb.org

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

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Alibaba

McObject

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2001

2013

1993

2006

Current release

8.2, 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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 and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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