DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cassandra vs. Hazelcast vs. Informix vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cassandra vs. Hazelcast vs. Informix vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	17.87
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org

hazelcast.com

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Hazelcast

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Percona

Initial release

2016

2008

1984

2015

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

14.10.FC5, November 2020

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

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)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

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

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

Access rights for users and roles

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