DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Prometheus

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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 fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Initial release

2016

1999

2012

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Python

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

by Federation

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

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

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 rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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