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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. SingleStore

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#221  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score5.27
Rank#67  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score5.91
Rank#61  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comwww.scylladb.comwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.scylladb.comdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationScyllaDBSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20162014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201220152013
Current release10 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 2019ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Scylla Cloud: Create real-time applications that run at global scale with Scylla Cloud, the industry’s most powerful NoSQL DBaaSSingleStoreDB Cloud: The world's fastest, modern cloud database for both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads. Available instantly with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud capabilities
Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++C++, Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptFor CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes, Luayes
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputePostgres-XLPouchDBScyllaDBSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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