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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dolt vs. KairosDB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.dolthub.com

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Alibaba

DoltHub Inc

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2018

2013

2005

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

currently in alpha release

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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