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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Bangdb vs. InfluxDB vs. MarkLogic

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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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bangdb.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.progress.com/marklogic

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.bangdb.com

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

MarkLogic Corp.

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

2001

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

Numeric data and Strings

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes (enterprise version only)

simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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