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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Blueflood vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. QuestDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeblueflood.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.ioquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaRackspaceChris DavisQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20162013200620132014
Current release1.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonosimple password-based access control
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeBluefloodGraphiteKairosDBQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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