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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Citus vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.citusdata.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperAlibabaDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2016201020142013
Current release8.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Sourcecommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.View functions in JavaScriptJava, SQL
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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