DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. MySQL vs. SwayDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. MySQL vs. SwayDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TerminusDB

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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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.mysql.com

swaydb.simer.au

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Simer Plaha

Tencent

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1995

2018

2013

2018

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

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

none

Automatic sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

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 journaling

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

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