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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. Graphite vs. GridGain

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#221  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsChris DavisGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release2016201220062007
Current release29.0.1, April 2024GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaPythonJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL for queryingnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Sockets
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnononoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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