DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cassandra vs. Memcached vs. SQL.JS vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cassandra vs. Memcached vs. SQL.JS vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

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

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org

www.memcached.org

sql.js.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Rocket Software

Initial release

2016

2008

2003

2012

1985

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol

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

Proprietary protocol

JavaScript API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

JavaScript

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

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

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

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

none

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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