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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Impala vs. Derby vs. IRONdb vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Impala vs. Derby vs. IRONdb vs. Riak KV

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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 warehousingAnalytic DBMS for HadoopFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeimpala.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbywww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputeimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software FoundationCirconus LLC.OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20162013199720172009
Current release4.1.0, June 202210.17.1.0, November 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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 indexesnoyesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJava Stored Proceduresyes, in LuaErlang
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, using Riak Security

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