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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Impala vs. GeoMesa vs. Informix vs. LeanXcale

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingAnalytic DBMS for HadoopGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
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
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeimpala.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputeimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCCRi and othersIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.LeanXcale
Initial release20162013201419842015
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0.0, May 202414.10.FC5, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC, C++ and Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factordepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
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.nonodepending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

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