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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FoundationDB vs. Geode vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.86
Rank#200  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#29  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.42
Rank#149  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score2.08
Rank#116  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#362  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgeode.apache.orgpouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputeapple.github.io/­foundationdbgeode.apache.org/­docspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAlibabaFoundationDBOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Apache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20162013200220122011
Current release6.2.28, November 20201.1, February 20177.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnononoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (OQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javain SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source 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 ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights per client and object definablenono

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