DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Fauna vs. ScyllaDB vs. WakandaDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Fauna vs. ScyllaDB vs. WakandaDB vs. YottaDB

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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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.fauna.com

docs.scylladb.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Fauna, Inc.

ScyllaDB

Wakanda SAS

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2014

2015

2012

2001

Current release

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

JavaScript

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

optimistic locking

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

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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