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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. Spark SQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographgeode.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/spark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAlibabaCambridge SemanticsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Circonus LLC.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20162018200220172014
Current release2.3, January 20211.1, February 2017V0.10.20, January 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsyes, in Luano
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesKerberos/HDFS data loadingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights per client and object definablenono

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