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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. NCache vs. TerminusDB

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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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.geomesa.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba

CCRi and others

Alachisoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2014

2005

2018

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JavaScript API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

View functions in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Role-based access control

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