DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AllegroGraph vs. MySQL vs. ScyllaDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AllegroGraph vs. MySQL vs. ScyllaDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

allegrograph.com

www.mysql.com

www.scylladb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Franz Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ScyllaDB

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2016

2004

1995

2015

2009

Current release

8.0, December 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

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

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

with Federation

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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