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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  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 PostgreSQLAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecachelot.iowww.citusdata.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.citusdata.comdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release2016201520102019
Current release8.1, December 20183.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CC, C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Memcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
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
C
C++
Java
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 (by range, list and hash)
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 extensionsSource-replica replication
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
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-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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