DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Cassandra vs. NCache vs. RRDtool vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Cassandra vs. NCache vs. RRDtool vs. ScyllaDB

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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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

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

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.15
Rank	#69	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Alachisoft

Tobias Oetiker

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2016

2008

2005

1999

2015

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

1.8.0, 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

none

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, with selectable consistency level

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

none

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metrics

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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache licenseÂ Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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