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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Cassandra vs. NSDb vs. PouchDB

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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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org

nsdb.io

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

nsdb.io/Architecture

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2008

2017

2012

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

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

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

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

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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