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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaMicrosoftquasardb
Initial release201620162009
Current release3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Python
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavayesTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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