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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Axibase vs. GBase vs. searchxml vs. Tarantool

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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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.gbase.cn

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

2013

2004

2015

2008

Current release

15585

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.0

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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