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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EventStoreDB vs. GBase vs. Kinetica vs. searchxml

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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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.eventstore.com

www.gbase.cn

www.kinetica.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

developers.eventstore.com

docs.kinetica.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Alibaba

Event Store Limited

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Kinetica

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

2012

2004

2012

2015

Current release

21.2, February 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

7.1, August 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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