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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Blueflood vs. Hive vs. LokiJS vs. ScyllaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  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 warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMSCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeblueflood.iohive.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperAlibabaRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookScyllaDB
Initial release20162013201220142015
Current release3.1.3, April 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia viewsyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScriptFor CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions in JavaScriptyes, Lua
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeBluefloodHiveLokiJSScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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