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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. Netezza vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. Netezza vs. Quasardb

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.gridgain.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibabaGridGain Systems, Inc.Circonus LLC.IBMquasardb
Initial release20162007201720002009
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1V0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux infoincluded in applianceBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infointeger and binary
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in Luayesno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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