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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. KairosDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

kairosdb.github.io

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2016

2013

2019

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

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