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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Citus vs. Lovefield vs. SpaceTime vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Citus vs. Lovefield vs. SpaceTime vs. SQream DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 PostgreSQLEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.citusdata.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesqream.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.citusdata.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleMireoSQream Technologies
Initial release20162010201420202017
Current release8.1, December 20182.1.12, February 20172022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC#
C++
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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.nonouser defined functions in Python
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
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 extensionsnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes

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