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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GridGain vs. QuestDB vs. RDF4J vs. VoltDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.gridgain.comquestdb.iordf4j.orgwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAlibabaGridGain Systems, Inc.QuestDB Technology IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release20162007201420042010
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.111.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyesJava
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeGridGainQuestDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameVoltDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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