DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage 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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

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

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2014

2016

2013

2012

2010

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

optimistic locking

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

simple password-based access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

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