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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Graph Engine vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Graph Engine vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.53
Rank#270  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#224  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score6.68
Rank#61  Overall
#8  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.graphengine.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­product/­27797.htmwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201620102001
Current release3.4.1, July 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++
Server operating systemshosted.NETFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayesno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesno

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