DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Druid vs. ClickHouse vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Druid vs. ClickHouse vs. TerarkDB

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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

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

druid.apache.org

clickhouse.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

clickhouse.com/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Alibaba

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Clickhouse Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

2018

2012

2016

Current release

2.3, January 2021

29.0.1, April 2024

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL for querying

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic sharding

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

key based and custom

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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