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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Altibase vs. AntDB vs. Axibase vs. CockroachDB

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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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

altibase.com

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.cockroachlabs.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

Altibase

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Axibase Corporation

Cockroach Labs

Initial release

2016

1999

2013

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

23.1.1, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL-92

SQL2016 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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