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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. KairosDB vs. Kdb vs. Titan vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. KairosDB vs. Kdb vs. Titan vs. Trafodion

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
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.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2High performance Time Series DBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbkx.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titantrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputekairosdb.github.iocode.kx.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikitrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAlibabaKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcAurelius, owned by DataStaxApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release201620132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320122014
Current release1.2.2, November 20183.6, May 20182.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaqJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (q)noyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanouser defined functionsyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access controlrights management via user accountsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeKairosDBKdbTitanTrafodion
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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