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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  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 warehousingHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.gigaspaces.comcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAlibabaGigaspaces TechnologiesGoogleCirconus LLC.
Initial release2016200020082017
Current release15.5, September 2020V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayesusing Google App Engineyes, in Lua
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication using Paxosconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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