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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. Splunk

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

2013

2003

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

yes

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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