DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Lovefield vs. MongoDB vs. searchxml vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Lovefield vs. MongoDB vs. searchxml vs. TDengine

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mongodb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Alibaba

Google

MongoDB, Inc

informationpartners gmbh

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2016

2014

2009

2015

2019

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0.7, June 2023

1.0

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

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