DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenQM vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenQM vs. RocksDB

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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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2015

1993

2013

Current release

3.4-12

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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