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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. gStore vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant

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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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

en.gstore.cn

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Alibaba

Baidu

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2016

2018

2010

Current release

1.2, November 2023

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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