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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB vs. TiDB

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  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 DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesSpatial DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Document 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
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSterminusdb.compingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperAlibabaCCRi and othersDataChemist Ltd.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20162014201420182016
Current release5.0.0, May 202411.0.0, January 20238.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaScriptProlog, RustGo, Rust
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
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 languagenonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanoView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layernoneGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layernoneJournaling StreamsUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layernoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
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.yes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoRole-based access controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeGeoMesaLokiJSTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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