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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. ClickHouse

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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

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.81
Rank	#237	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#357	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.98
Rank	#39	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

clickhouse.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

clickhouse.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Clickhouse Inc.

Initial release

2016

Current release

v23.7.4.5-stable, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

yes, when using the MergeTree engine

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Scala

3rd party library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

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