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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Kylin vs. GeoMesa vs. LeanXcale vs. Pinecone

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackGeoMesa 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 capabilitiesA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputekylin.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.leanxcale.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputekylin.apache.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncCCRi and othersLeanXcalePinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20162015201420152019
Current release3.1.0, July 20204.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noyes infothrough Apache Derbyno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
Java
Scala
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javano
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonodepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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