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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Axibase vs. Cassandra vs. MonetDB vs. TypeDB

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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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cassandra.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

typedb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

MonetDB BV

Vaticle

Initial release

2016

2013

2008

2004

2016

Current release

15585

4.1.3, July 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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