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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Axibase vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Graph Engine vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Axibase vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Graph Engine vs. Kinetica

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesTime Series DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.graphengine.iowww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.datastax.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAlibabaAxibase CorporationDataStaxMicrosoftKinetica
Initial release20162013201120102012
Current release155856.8, April 20207.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava.NET and CC, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
.NETLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayesnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users and roles on table level
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeAxibaseDatastax EnterpriseGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityKinetica
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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