DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

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

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

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

realm.io

rocksdb.org

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Microsoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2016

2010

2014

2013

2015

Current release

V12

9.2.1, May 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

In-Memory realm

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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