DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Infobright vs. ObjectBox vs. RethinkDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Infobright vs. ObjectBox vs. RethinkDB vs. Splice Machine

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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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

rethinkdb.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.objectbox.io

rethinkdb.com/docs

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Alibaba

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Splice Machine

Initial release

2016

2005

2017

2009

2014

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

2.4.1, August 2020

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Java

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

range based

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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17 September 2024

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11 September 2024

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24 July 2024

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18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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