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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. Ingres

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingIn-memory caching systemScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecachelot.iowww.citusdata.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.citusdata.comdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAlibabaActian Corporation
Initial release2016201520101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release8.1, December 201811.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CC
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Memcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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