DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

machbase.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

kairosdb.github.io

machbase.com/dbms

opensearch.org/docs/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Alibaba

Machbase

Amazon Web Services

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2013

2021

1992

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

V8.0, August 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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