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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. OpenSearch vs. ReductStore 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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

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

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.reduct.store/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon Web Services

ReductStore LLC

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

2021

2023

2016

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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