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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Memcached vs. Teradata Aster vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Memcached vs. Teradata Aster vs. Titan

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.memcached.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaInterSystemsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalTeradataAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162018200320052012
Current release2023.3, June 20231.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.noyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavayesnoR packagesyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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