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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Databend vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. VoltDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.databend.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Databend Labs

Embarcadero

Circonus LLC.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2021

1984

2017

2010

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

hosted
Linux
macOS

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes, in Lua

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Interbase Change Views

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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