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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Datomic vs. Dragonfly vs. LokiJS

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  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 warehousingDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.datomic.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectDragonflyDB team and community contributors
Initial release2016201220232014
Current release1.0.7075, December 20231.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesscheme-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes infoTransaction FunctionsLuaView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes
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 servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes 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.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoPassword-based authenticationno

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