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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the 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 dataOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Oracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designapple.github.io/­foundationdbcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsFoundationDBGoogleOracle
Initial release20162012201320152007
Current release29.0.1, April 20246.2.28, November 202014.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL for queryingsupported in specific SQL layer onlynono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoin SQL-layer onlynono
Triggersnonononoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic single-row operationsconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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