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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. GridGain vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. GridGain vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
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 virtualizationGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRDF store
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.gridgain.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaCambridge SemanticsGridGain Systems, Inc.GoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20162018200720142004
Current release2.3, January 2021GridGain 8.5.12.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions and aggregatesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)Using read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryes (replicated cache)nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnono

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