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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. IRONdb vs. Splunk

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.90
Rank	#199	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	78.87
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba

Circonus LLC.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2003

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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