DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Couchbase vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Couchbase vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

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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 distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.couchbase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

pouchdb.com

rockset.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.couchbase.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Couchbase, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Apache Software Foundation

Rockset

Initial release

2016

2011

1991

2012

2019

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

5.7

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

dynamic typing

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

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

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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