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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. LokiJS vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. Yaacomo

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeSpatial DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesphinxsearch.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaMireoSphinx Technologies Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20162014202020012009
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScriptC#
C++
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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