DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GeoMesa vs. Google BigQuery

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GeoMesa vs. Google BigQuery

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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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.geomesa.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

CCRi and others

Google

Initial release

2014

2016

2014

2010

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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