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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TerarkDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesWide column storeGraph DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedgraph.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredgraph.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaDgraph Labs, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20162016201620102016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageGoErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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 indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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