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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. JanusGraph vs. Solr

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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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

janusgraph.org

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.janusgraph.org

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2006

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

yes

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