DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Elasticsearch vs. Riak TS vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Elasticsearch vs. Riak TS vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.singlestore.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Elastic

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

2015

2013

2014

Current release

8.6, January 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Erlang

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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