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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. DataFS vs. KairosDB vs. Newts vs. SQream DB

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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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

newdatabase.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

opennms.github.io/newts

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Alibaba

Mobiland AG

OpenNMS Group

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2018

2013

2014

2017

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST
Java API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

Immediate Consistency

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

Windows-Profile

simple password-based access control

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