DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. FileMaker vs. Prometheus vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. FileMaker vs. Prometheus vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/filemaker

prometheus.io

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

prometheus.io/docs

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

2012

1983

2015

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

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)

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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