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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. InfluxDB vs. MySQL vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsWidely used open source RDBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.mysql.comspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdev.mysql.com/­docspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20162013199520141987
Current release2.7.6, April 20248.4.0, April 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
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
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyes infoproprietary syntaxnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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