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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputephoenix.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaserockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputephoenix.apache.orgdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaApache Software FoundationMicrosoftRockset
Initial release20142016201420102019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.nononoyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageyesyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functionsTransact SQLno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with always 3 replicas availableyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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