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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigchainDB vs. Derby vs. InfinityDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigchainDB vs. Derby vs. InfinityDB vs. RDF4J

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRDF store
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.bigchaindb.comdb.apache.org/­derbyboilerbay.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputebigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20162016199720022004
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20234.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaJava Stored Proceduresnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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