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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. EJDB

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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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

blueflood.io

www.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

Developer

Alibaba

Rackspace

Cognitect

Softmotions

Initial release

2016

2013

2012

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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