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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibabaCCRi and othersMicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20162014201420162018
Current release5.0.0, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJavaScriptC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanoView functions in JavaScriptTransact SQLyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layernoneSharding, horizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layernoneyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layernoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyesRole-based access control

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