DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cassandra vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cassandra vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Google

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

2008

2013

2014

2012

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

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

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

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

in enterprise version only

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

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

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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