DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Heroic vs. Linter vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Heroic vs. Linter vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

RDBMS for high security requirements

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/spotify/heroic

linter.ru

www.monetdb.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Spotify

relex.ru

MonetDB BV

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2014

1990

2004

2013

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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