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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Hive vs. OpenQM vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Hive vs. OpenQM vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbhive.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsTeradata
Initial release2016201219932005
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesR packages
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryesyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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