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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. CouchDB vs. GridGain

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. CouchDB vs. GridGain

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score3.33
Rank#99  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score11.73
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#158  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputedruid.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orgwww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release2016201220052007
Current release29.0.0, February 20243.3.3, December 2023GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL for queryingnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanoView functions in JavaScriptyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnonoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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