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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. KairosDB vs. Sphinx vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. KairosDB vs. Sphinx vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
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 H2Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbsphinxsearch.comvelocitydb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputekairosdb.github.iosphinxsearch.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuidevitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaSphinx Technologies Inc.VelocityDB IncThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20162013200120112013
Current release1.2.2, November 20183.5.1, February 20237.x15.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NETDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol.NetADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanononoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersnononoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access controlnoBased on Windows AuthenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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