DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.mysql.com

opentsdb.net

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Rockset

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

1995

2011

2019

1992

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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