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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed, 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
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series 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
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.gridgain.comen.gstore.cnwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/quasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibabaGridGain Systems, Inc.Circonus LLC.quasardb
Initial release20162007201620172009
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.11.2, November 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercialcommercial 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++C and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes 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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-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 API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.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)yesyes, in Luano
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding 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 replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonowith 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 integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesnoACID
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.noyesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportednoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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