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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Axibase vs. OpenSearch vs. TDengine

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

Amazon Web Services

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2016

2013

2021

2019

Current release

15585

2.5.0, January 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes

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