DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. openGemini

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. openGemini

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Name

Description

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

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.opengemini.org/guide

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Huawei and openGemini community

Initial release

2016

1989

1994

2022

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.4, October 2021

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL-like query language

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Access rights for users and roles

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators and common users accounts

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