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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GBase vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Realm

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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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.gbase.cn

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

machbase.com

realm.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

kairosdb.github.io

machbase.com/dbms

realm.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Machbase

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2016

2004

2013

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.2.2, November 2018

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

none

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

simple password-based access control

yes

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