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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. LeanXcale vs. Riak KV vs. YottaDB

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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 highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.leanxcale.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

LeanXcale

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2015

2009

2001

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C
Java
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes, using Riak Security

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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