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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak TS vs. ScyllaDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak TS vs. ScyllaDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesSearch engineTime Series DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.scylladb.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesScyllaDBByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20162015201520152016
Current releaseV13.0.0, September 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedyes infocluster global secondary indicesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes, limitedSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)no
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanoErlangyes, Luano
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectno
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeMicrosoft Azure AI SearchRiak TSScyllaDBTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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