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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. GeoMesa vs. LeanXcale

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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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.geomesa.org

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Cambridge Semantics

CCRi and others

LeanXcale

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2015

Current release

2.3, January 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

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.

yes

through Apache Derby

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
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
Python

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic sharding

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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