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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. Prometheus vs. TiDB

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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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.09
Rank	#72	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

prometheus.io

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

prometheus.io/docs

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

1983

2015

2016

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

8.2.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

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

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

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