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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cubrid vs. Graph Engine vs. mSQL vs. XTDB

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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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.graphengine.io

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cubrid.org/manuals

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2008

2010

1994

2019

Current release

11.0, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

.NET and C

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

.NET

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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