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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. MariaDB vs. MonetDB vs. RavenDB vs. Warp 10

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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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.monetdb.org

ravendb.net

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

ravendb.net/docs

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Alibaba

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

MonetDB BV

Hibernating Rhinos

SenX

Initial release

2016

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2004

2010

2015

Current release

11.3.2, February 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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