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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. NCache

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Name

Description

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

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

kylin.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Alachisoft

Initial release

2016

2015

2005

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Typical application scenarios

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