DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cassandra vs. Memgraph vs. Riak KV vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cassandra vs. Memgraph vs. Riak KV vs. Teradata

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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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	47.84
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org

memgraph.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

memgraph.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.teradata.com

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Memgraph Ltd

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2008

2017

2009

1984

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Erlang

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Hashing

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

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

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

relationships in graphs

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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