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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Memcached vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Memcached vs. Yaacomo

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegeode.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.memcached.orgyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegeode.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20162002201520032009
Current release1.1, February 20171.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (OQL)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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