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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EJDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.objectbox.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Softmotions

ObjectBox Limited

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2021

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

in-process shared library

Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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