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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigObject vs. Geode vs. InfinityDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigObject vs. Geode vs. InfinityDB vs. Quasardb

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 queriesGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
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 storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputebigobject.iogeode.apache.orgboilerbay.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.bigobject.iogeode.apache.org/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Boiler Bay Inc.quasardb
Initial release20162015200220022009
Current release1.1, February 20174.03.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infointeger and binary
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaLuauser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes, on a single nodeACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights per client and object definablenoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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