DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Fauna vs. openGemini vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Fauna vs. openGemini vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

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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.

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

fauna.com

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.snowflake.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.fauna.com

docs.opengemini.org/guide

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Alibaba

Fauna, Inc.

Huawei and openGemini community

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2016

2014

2022

2014

2019

Current release

1.1, July 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Administrators and common users accounts

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

yes

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