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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.splunk.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

1992

2003

2010

Current release

17, July 2015

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Java

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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