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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Graph Engine vs. KairosDB vs. TimesTen

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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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.graphengine.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

kairosdb.github.io

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2010

2013

1998

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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