DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Citus vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Citus vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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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

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	2.02
Rank	#130	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#123	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	29.85
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

phoenix.apache.org

www.citusdata.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

phoenix.apache.org

docs.citusdata.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2010

2014

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

8.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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