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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. BigObject vs. gStore vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. BigObject vs. gStore vs. IRONdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  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 warehousingOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#203  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputedruid.apache.orgbigobject.ioen.gstore.cnwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.bigobject.ioen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsBigObject, Inc.Circonus LLC.
Initial release20162012201520162017
Current release30.0.0, June 20241.2, November 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanoLuayesyes, in Lua
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedno

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