DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Spark SQL

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

geode.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Alibaba

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2002

2017

2014

Current release

1.1, February 2017

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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