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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dragonfly vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQL.JS vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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 instanceCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storePort of SQLite to JavaScriptMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.scylladb.comsql.js.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.scylladb.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperAlibabaDragonflyDB team and community contributorsScyllaDBAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersRocket Software
Initial release20162023201520121985
Current release1.0, March 2023ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesscheme-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesoptional
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
JavaScript APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
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
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
JavaScript.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaLuayes, Luanoyes
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeDragonflyScyllaDBSQL.JSUniData,UniVerse
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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