DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Couchbase vs. Kingbase vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Couchbase vs. Kingbase vs. Weaviate

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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

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.couchbase.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

docs.couchbase.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Couchbase, Inc.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

2000

2011

1999

2019

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

V8.0, August 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

Standard with numerous extensions

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Automatic Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access control via Jena Security

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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