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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. CockroachDB vs. KairosDB vs. Newts

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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

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.cockroachlabs.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Cockroach Labs

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2015

2013

2014

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

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