DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BaseX vs. Hive vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BaseX 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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

Native XML 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
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	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML 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

basex.org

hive.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.basex.org

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

SAP

Initial release

2014

2016

2007

2012

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

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

BSD license

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
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

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