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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. JanusGraph vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake vs. StarRocks

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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 Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
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Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

janusgraph.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.snowflake.com

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Alibaba

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2016

2017

2015

2014

2020

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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