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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB vs. YTsaurus

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queriesYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesSearch engineDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
ytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputesphinxsearch.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docsytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperAlibabaSphinx Technologies Inc.Juxt Ltd.Yandex
Initial release2016200120192023
Current release3.5.1, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ClojureC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Ubuntu
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation formatyes
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 indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache CalciteYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes, each node contains all datayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess Control Lists

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