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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. atoti vs. Datomic vs. GridDB vs. Newts

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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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

atoti.io

www.datomic.com

griddb.net

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.atoti.io

docs.datomic.com

docs.griddb.net

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

ActiveViam

Cognitect

Toshiba Corporation

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

2014

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

5.1, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Python

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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