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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Lovefield vs. Realm vs. SpaceTime

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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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

google.github.io/lovefield

realm.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

realm.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Mireo

Initial release

2016

2014

2020

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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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

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

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 realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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