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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Databricks vs. Graphite vs. LeanXcale vs. mSQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.databricks.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.leanxcale.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.databricks.comgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperAlibabaDatabricksChris DavisLeanXcaleHughes Technologies
Initial release20162013200620151994
Current release4.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagewith Databricks SQLnoyes infothrough Apache DerbyA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaPython
R
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions and aggregatesnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnono
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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