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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J vs. Tarantool

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Search engineRDF storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrdf4j.orgwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperAlibabaIBMMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.VK
Initial release20162017201520042008
Current release2.0V12.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF SchemasFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenonoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavayesnoyesLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnononoyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceActive-active shard replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationnoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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