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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. DolphinDB vs. KairosDB 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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

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

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

kairosdb.github.io

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

DolphinDB, Inc

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2018

2013

2019

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
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.

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

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

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

yes

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

simple password-based access control

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