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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. PlanetScale vs. ScyllaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/planetscale.comwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperAlibabaEmbarcaderoCirconus LLC.PlanetScaleScyllaDB
Initial release20161984201720202015
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019V0.10.20, January 2018ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC and C++GoC++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, in Luayes infoproprietary syntaxyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceInterbase Change Viewsconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID at shard levelno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.noyesnoyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeInterbaseIRONdbPlanetScaleScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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