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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. LokiJS vs. OceanBase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. LokiJS vs. OceanBase

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 durabilityAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSen.oceanbase.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.datomic.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-database
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectHypertable Inc.OceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group
Initial release20162012200920142010
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.9.8.11, March 20164.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes infoTransaction FunctionsnoView functions in JavaScriptPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yes
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 developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnononoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeDatomicHypertableLokiJSOceanBase
Specific characteristicsOceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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Key customersOceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metricsTPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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