DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Coherence

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

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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	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Google

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2016

2010

2015

2007

Current release

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic single-row operations

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

optionally

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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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