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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache HBase vs. NSDb

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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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.88
Rank	#200	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	25.00
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#392	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

hbase.apache.org

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

hbase.apache.org/book.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2016

2008

2017

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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