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

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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.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.geomesa.org

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Alibaba

CCRi and others

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2016

2014

2004

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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