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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Vitess

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaChris DavisMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20162006201320152013
Current release1.2.2, November 2018V115.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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 indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanononoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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