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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Kylin vs. GBase vs. TerminusDB

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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 distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

kylin.apache.org

www.gbase.cn

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

kylin.apache.org/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2015

2004

2018

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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 journaling

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

yes

Role-based access control

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