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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cachelot.io vs. Hive vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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 systemdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecachelot.iohive.apache.orgpostgis.netprometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homepostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20162015201220052015
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCGo
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonoyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Memcached protocolJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factoryes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
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 rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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