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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigObject vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SingleStore vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigObject vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SingleStore vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 queriesGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
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
Wide column store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#203  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputebigobject.iocloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.singlestore.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.bigobject.iocloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.singlestore.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.GoogleSingleStore Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20162015201520132018
Current release8.5, January 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, GoProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux info64 bit version requiredLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaLuanoyesyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding infohash partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Fine grained access control via users, groups and rolesRole-based access control

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