DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. ClickHouse vs. Dragonfly vs. NebulaGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. ClickHouse vs. Dragonfly vs. NebulaGraph

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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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#255	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

clickhouse.com

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

clickhouse.com/docs

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Alibaba

Clickhouse Inc.

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2016

2023

2019

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

1.0, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

Strong typed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

Supported programming languages

Java

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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 and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Password-based authentication

Role-based access control

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