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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Kylin vs. GeoMesa vs. LeanXcale vs. PieCloudDB

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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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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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	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

CCRi and others

LeanXcale

OpenPie

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

2015

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

4.0.5, February 2024

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
Java
Scala

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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 capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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