DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. jBASE vs. MySQL vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. jBASE vs. MySQL vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used open source RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.mysql.com

pouchdb.com

rockset.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

dev.mysql.com/doc

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation

Rockset

Initial release

2016

1991

1995

2012

2019

Current release

5.7

8.4.0, April 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

proprietary syntax

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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