DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

IRONdb 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

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

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

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.kingbase.com.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Circonus LLC.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2000

2017

1999

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

JSON types

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 properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP API

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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