DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake vs. Tigris vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake vs. Tigris vs. Tkrzw

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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 drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#55	Key-value stores
	#24	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.snowflake.com

www.tigrisdata.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

2022

2020

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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