DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. Cassandra vs. EJDB vs. Hawkular Metrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. Cassandra vs. EJDB vs. Hawkular Metrics

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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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

druid.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.hawkular.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Softmotions

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2012

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

4.1.3, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL for querying

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

in-process shared library

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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