DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Drill vs. Kinetica vs. OrigoDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Drill vs. Kinetica vs. OrigoDB vs. RocksDB

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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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.kinetica.com

origodb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Kinetica

Robert Friberg et al

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

7.1, August 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Role based authorization

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