DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Linter vs. NuoDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Linter vs. NuoDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Titan

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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.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

RDBMS for high security requirements

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

linter.ru

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

doc.nuodb.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

relex.ru

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

1990

2013

2021

2012

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Java, SQL

yes

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

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

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

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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