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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Databricks vs. Datomic vs. LokiJS

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.databricks.comwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.databricks.comdocs.datomic.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAlibabaDatabricksCognitect
Initial release2016201320122014
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagewith Databricks SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaPython
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions and aggregatesyes infoTransaction FunctionsView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnono
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