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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Cubrid vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Cubrid vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.In-memory caching systemCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
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Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbcachelot.iocubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
cloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewcubrid.org/­manualscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationGoogle
Initial release2016201520082015
Current release11.0, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++C, C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
Memcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavayesnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDAtomic single-row operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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