DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Drizzle vs. H2 vs. RethinkDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Drizzle vs. H2 vs. RethinkDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It 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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.h2database.com

rethinkdb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Thomas Mueller

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

TempoIQ

Initial release

2016

2008

2005

2009

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.2.220, July 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC based

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

simple authentication-based access control

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