DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. WakandaDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. WakandaDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

wakanda.github.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2016

2013

2001

2012

2009

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

JavaScript

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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