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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Sqrrl vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Sqrrl vs. ToroDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbcloud.google.com/­spannersqrrl.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaGoogleAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.8Kdata
Initial release2016201720122016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011no
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infomaking use of HadoopSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoStrict serializable isolationAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Access rights for users and roles

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