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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Elasticsearch vs. Geode vs. RocksDB

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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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

geode.apache.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

geode.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Elastic

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

2002

2013

Current release

8.6, January 2023

1.1, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights per client and object definable

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