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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FileMaker vs. Kinetica vs. PouchDB vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.kinetica.compouchdb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.kinetica.compouchdb.com/­guidessphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleKineticaApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20161983201220122001
Current release19.4.1, November 20217.1, August 20217.1.1, June 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaPHPC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnono

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