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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 warehousingBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresScalable 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 tablesDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.bigchaindb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.postgres-xl.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputebigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2016201620152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current releaseV110 R1, October 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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