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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cassandra vs. Cubrid vs. JaguarDB vs. MySQL

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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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Widely used open source RDBMS

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
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.jaguardb.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

cubrid.org/manuals

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2008

2015

1995

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

11.0, January 2021

3.3 July 2023

8.3.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

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

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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