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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 processesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegeode.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasespark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.nuodb.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAlibabaOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Circonus LLC.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20162002201720132014
Current release1.1, February 2017V0.10.20, January 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++Scala
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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 indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.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
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functionsyes, in LuaJava, SQLno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodenoACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights per client and object definablenoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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