DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. Hive vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. Hive vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

druid.apache.org

hive.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

SAP

Initial release

2014

2016

2012

2010

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.1.3, April 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

SQL for querying

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

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