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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSFully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvhive.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apicwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperAlibabaCloudflareApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBaiduMicrosoft
Initial release20162018201220182019
Current release3.1.3, April 20220.9cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobsYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersnonononoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducevia hugegraph-sparkSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissionsAzure Active Directory Authentication

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