DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Brytlyt vs. Kinetica vs. LevelDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Brytlyt vs. Kinetica vs. LevelDB

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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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#292	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	2.33
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org

brytlyt.io

www.kinetica.com

github.com/google/leveldb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Brytlyt

Kinetica

Google

Initial release

2016

2008

2016

2012

2011

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

5.0, August 2023

7.1, August 2021

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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