DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx vs. WakandaDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx vs. WakandaDB vs. YottaDB

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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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

rdf4j.org/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Wakanda SAS

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2004

2001

2012

2001

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

JavaScript

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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