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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Elasticsearch vs. KairosDB vs. SAP HANA vs. YTsaurus

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/hana

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Alibaba

Elastic

SAP

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2010

2013

2010

2023

Current release

8.6, January 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

simple password-based access control

yes

Access Control Lists

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