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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EDB Postgres vs. Elasticsearch vs. Geode vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EDB Postgres vs. Elasticsearch vs. Geode vs. ObjectBox

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.enterprisedb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAlibabaEnterpriseDBElasticOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release20162005201020022017
Current release14, December 20218.6, January 20231.1, February 20174.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like types
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoMemcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definableyes
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