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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GreptimeDB vs. H2 vs. Splunk vs. Teradata

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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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.greptime.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Alibaba

Greptime Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Splunk Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2022

2005

2003

1984

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Python

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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