DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. OpenSearch

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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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	16.31
Rank	#36	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

2021

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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