DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. RocksDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. RocksDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

cloud.google.com/bigtable

rocksdb.org

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Google

Facebook, Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2016

2023

2015

2013

2018

Current release

1.0, March 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

C++ API
Java API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Java

C
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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Lua

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

Synchronous replication

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

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Atomic single-row operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Password-based authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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