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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigObject vs. CrateDB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigObject vs. CrateDB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDistributed Database based on LuceneAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#203  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#226  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#11  Vector DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputebigobject.iocratedb.comgreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.bigobject.iocratedb.com/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.CratePivotal Software Inc.
Initial release20162015201320052014
Current release5.8.1, August 20247.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaLuauser defined functions (Javascript)yesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnorights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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