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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. SurrealDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. SurrealDB vs. Titan

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.monetdb.orgquasar.aisurrealdb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersurrealdb.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaMonetDB BVquasardbSurrealDB LtdAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162004200920222012
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++RustJava
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes, in SQL, C, Rnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesSharding infoconsistent hashingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, based on authentication and database rulesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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