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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. KairosDB vs. NCache vs. Titan vs. Yanza

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Name

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.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

kairosdb.github.io

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Alachisoft

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Yanza

Initial release

2016

2013

2005

2012

2015

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

via pluggable storage backends

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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