DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Blazegraph vs. EventStoreDB vs. IRONdb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Blazegraph vs. EventStoreDB vs. IRONdb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

blazegraph.com

www.eventstore.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

wiki.blazegraph.com

developers.eventstore.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Blazegraph

Event Store Limited

Circonus LLC.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2006

2012

2017

2014

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

21.2, February 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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