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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Databricks vs. KairosDB vs. Newts vs. QuestDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Time Series DBMS based on CassandraA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.databricks.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopennms.github.io/­newtsquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.databricks.comkairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaDatabricksOpenNMS GroupQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20162013201320142014
Current release1.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagewith Databricks SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaPython
R
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions and aggregatesnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access controlno
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeDatabricksKairosDBNewtsQuestDB
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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