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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Ehcache vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Pinecone

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Vector DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.ehcache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.ehcache.org/­documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAlibabaTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGooglePinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2016200920152019
Current release3.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyes
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoString, Number, Boolean
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JCachegRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanono
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoby using Terracotta ServerInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceAtomic single-row operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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