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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Drill vs. Newts vs. searchxml

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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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

drill.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

drill.apache.org/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

OpenNMS Group

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2015

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Depending on the underlying data source

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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