DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. NebulaGraph vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. NebulaGraph vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB

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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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	3.58
Rank	#92	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	2.12
Rank	#125	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

rocksdb.org

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Vesoft Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Cesbit

Initial release

2016

2015

2019

2013

2017

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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 for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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