DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. PouchDB

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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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.datastax.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Alibaba

DataStax

OpenNMS Group

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2011

2014

2021

2012

Current release

6.8, April 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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