DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. MariaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. MariaDB

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Name

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Document store

Key-value store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	3.58
Rank	#92	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	93.81
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.bigchaindb.com

geode.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigtable

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

geode.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Alibaba

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Google

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2016

2002

2015

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

Current release

1.1, February 2017

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes, on a single node

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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