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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. Kdb vs. TerarkDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. Kdb vs. TerarkDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
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 dataHigh performance Time Series DBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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
Score7.73
Rank#45  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputedruid.apache.orgkx.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcode.kx.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcByteDance, originally TerarkDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201620122000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320162018
Current release30.0.0, June 20243.6, May 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaqC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'no
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL for queryingSQL-like query language (q)noSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
C++ API
Java API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioningnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemrights management via user accountsnoRole-based access control
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeApache DruidKdbTerarkDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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