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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Altibase vs. Geode 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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

altibase.com

geode.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

geode.apache.org/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Altibase

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

1999

2002

2021

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1, February 2017

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

Access rights per client and object definable

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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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