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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cachelot.io vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. KairosDB

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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

In-memory caching system

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cachelot.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Alibaba

IBM

Initial release

2016

2015

2017

2013

Current release

2.0

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Active-active shard replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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