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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. PlanetScale vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. PlanetScale vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#203  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvplanetscale.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiplanetscale.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCloudflarePlanetScaleMireoSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162018202020202001
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infowith proprietary extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
C++
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyes infoproprietary syntaxnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Real-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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at shard levelnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
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 rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyesno

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