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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BaseX vs. ObjectBox vs. XTDB

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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

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Native XML DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

basex.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.basex.org

docs.objectbox.io

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

BaseX GmbH

ObjectBox Limited

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2007

2017

2019

Current release

11.2, August 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

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