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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. IRONdb vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake vs. TypeDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 warehousingA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.snowflake.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedkairosdb.github.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCirconus LLC.Snowflake Computing Inc.Vaticle
Initial release20162017201320142016
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.2.2, November 20182.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes, in Luanouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on CassandrayesSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeIRONdbKairosDBSnowflakeTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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