DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FileMaker vs. OpenSearch vs. TypeDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FileMaker vs. OpenSearch vs. TypeDB vs. VoltDB

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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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

typedb.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

typedb.com/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Amazon Web Services

Vaticle

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

1983

2021

2016

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

2.26.3, January 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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