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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebolt vs. Ingres vs. Sphinx vs. WakandaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseWell established RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.firebolt.iowww.actian.com/­databases/­ingressphinxsearch.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.firebolt.iodocs.actian.com/­ingressphinxsearch.com/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAlibabaFirebolt Analytics Inc.Actian CorporationSphinx Technologies Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release201620201974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20012012
Current release11.2, May 20223.5.1, February 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyesnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerIngres Replicatornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes

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