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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AllegroGraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch

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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

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

allegrograph.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Franz Inc.

Elastic

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2004

2010

2021

Current release

8.0, December 2023

8.6, January 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

with Federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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