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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox

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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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

dgraph.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

dgraph.io/docs

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Alibaba

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Softmotions

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2017

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Planned for future releases

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

On-device Vector Database for Dart/Flutter
21 May 2024

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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