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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dragonfly vs. Elasticsearch vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dragonfly vs. Elasticsearch vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeSearch engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gridgain.comwww.hawkular.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperAlibabaDragonflyDB team and community contributorsElasticGridGain Systems, Inc.Community supported by Red Hat
Initial release20162023201020072014
Current release1.0, March 20238.6, January 2023GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesscheme-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaLuayesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationyesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoES-Hadoop Connectoryes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesMemcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPassword-based authenticationSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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