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

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

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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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A 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 model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.mcobject.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Alibaba

McObject

Microsoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

2001

2015

2016

Current release

8.2, 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

using Azure authentication

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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