DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FileMaker vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FileMaker vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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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.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.claris.com/filemaker

pouchdb.com

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2016

1983

2012

2013

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Automatic 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

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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