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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigObject vs. Faircom DB vs. GeoMesa vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigObject vs. Faircom DB vs. GeoMesa vs. LeanXcale

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  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 queriesNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputebigobject.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.geomesa.orgwww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.bigobject.iodocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.FairCom CorporationCCRi and othersLeanXcale
Initial release20162015197920142015
Current releaseV12, November 20204.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Data schemeyesyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnoyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaLuayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).depending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
depending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonotunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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