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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#221  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#260  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputequestdb.iowww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputequestdb.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAlibabaQuestDB Technology IncSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release201620142013
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanoJavaScript
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID for single-table writesDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access control
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeQuestDBSequoiadb
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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