DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. MySQL vs. Splunk vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. MySQL vs. Splunk vs. TDengine

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.mysql.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Alibaba

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Splunk Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2016

1995

2003

2019

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions 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++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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