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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache IoTDB vs. OpenQM vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

iotdb.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2018

1993

2016

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
Native API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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