DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. RDFox

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle 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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

bigobject.io

blueflood.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Alibaba

BigObject, Inc.

Rackspace

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2016

2015

2013

2008

2017

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Lua

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Roles, resources, and access types

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