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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph 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
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantkairosdb.github.iosurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Hughes TechnologiesSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20162010201319942022
Current release1.2.2, November 20184.4, October 2021v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaCRust
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
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 Cassandranone
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
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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