DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Google BigQuery

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Google BigQuery

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

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

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Alibaba

Cambridge Semantics

Google

Initial release

2016

2018

2010

Current release

2.3, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

C++
Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

in JavaScript

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

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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