DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Trafodion vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Trafodion vs. Warp 10

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

trafodion.apache.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

SenX

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2015

Current release

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Java Stored Procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

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

based on HBase

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

yes, via HBase

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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