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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. Newts vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. Newts vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Time Series DBMS based on CassandraA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopennms.github.io/­newtswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantkairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenNMS GroupTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20162010201320141987
Current release1.2.2, November 2018Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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