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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Interbase vs. MySQL vs. Tkrzw vs. YDB

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used open source RDBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.mysql.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

dev.mysql.com/doc

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Embarcadero

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Mikio Hirabayashi

Yandex

Initial release

2016

1984

1995

2020

2019

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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