DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. Riak TS

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.kinetica.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Kinetica

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2012

2015

Current release

7.1, August 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C, C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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