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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. LeanXcale vs. QuestDB

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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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.leanxcale.com

questdb.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

LeanXcale

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

ACID for single-table writes

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

through memory mapped files

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)

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