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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. mSQL vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. mSQL vs. Solr

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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 H2mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantkairosdb.github.iosolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAlibabaIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Hughes TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162010201319942006
Current release1.2.2, November 20184.4, October 20219.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaCJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoJava plugins
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
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 Cassandranoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesnoyes
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.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlnoyes

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