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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Coveo vs. H2 vs. NCache vs. Splunk

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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

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.coveo.com

www.h2database.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.coveo.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba

Coveo

Thomas Mueller

Alachisoft

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2005

2003

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

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
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users and roles

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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