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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Bangdb vs. NSDb vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

bangdb.com

nsdb.io

swaydb.simer.au

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.bangdb.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Alibaba

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2018

1987

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java, Scala

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes: int, bigint, 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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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