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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. ArcadeDB vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB

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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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Search engine

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#374	Overall
	#52	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#56	Key-value stores
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

arcadedb.com

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.arcadedb.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Alibaba

Arcade Data

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

2021

2001

2016

Current release

September 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

none

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

relationship in graphs

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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