DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BaseX vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JSqlDb vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BaseX vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JSqlDb vs. Newts

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

basex.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

jsqldb.org (offline)

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.basex.org

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

BaseX GmbH

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Konrad von Backstrom

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2007

2010

2018

2014

Current release

11.0, June 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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