DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. InfinityDB vs. MySQL vs. RDF4J vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. InfinityDB vs. MySQL vs. RDF4J vs. RethinkDB

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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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Widely used open source RDBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

RDF store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

dev.mysql.com/doc

rdf4j.org/documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Boiler Bay Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2016

2002

1995

2004

2009

Current release

4.0

8.4.0, April 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

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