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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RisingWave vs. STSdb

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.risingwave.com/database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Alibaba

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

RisingWave Labs

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2010

2022

2011

Current release

1.2, September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and Roles

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