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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Drill vs. GridDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­documentdbdrill.apache.orggriddb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.griddb.net
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaApache Software FoundationToshiba Corporation
Initial release20142016201920122013
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin Javanouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoAtomic single-document operationsnoACID at container level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per database
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLAlibaba Cloud MaxComputeAmazon DocumentDBApache DrillGridDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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