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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GeoMesa vs. Realm vs. Splunk 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.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

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
RDF store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

realm.io/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba

CCRi and others

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Splunk Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2014

2003

2018

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

none

Multi-source replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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