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

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Drizzle vs. H2 vs. Sphinx 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.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

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

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.h2database.com

sphinxsearch.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Thomas Mueller

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2016

2008

2005

2001

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.2.220, July 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

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

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

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

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

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

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

simple authentication-based access control

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