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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GeoMesa vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GeoMesa vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.geomesa.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAlibabaCCRi and othersCirconus LLC.
Initial release2016201420172014
Current release5.0.0, May 2024V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenono

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