DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. Badger vs. Brytlyt vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. Badger vs. Brytlyt vs. OpenSearch

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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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

druid.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

brytlyt.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.brytlyt.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

DGraph Labs

Brytlyt

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2016

2021

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

5.0, August 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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