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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dgraph vs. searchxml vs. TerarkDB vs. XTDB

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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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Graph DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

dgraph.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

dgraph.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

ByteDance, originally Terark

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2015

2016

2019

Current release

1.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Planned for future releases

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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