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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Memcached vs. OpenTSDB vs. Tigris

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingGoogle'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 cachingScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.memcached.orgopentsdb.netwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20162015200320112022
Current release1.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnononumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 languagenononono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Telnet API
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoAccess rights for users and roles

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