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

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

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.geomesa.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba

CCRi and others

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2014

2018

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

none

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

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

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

Role-based access control

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