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

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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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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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	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2016

2012

2003

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

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

none

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

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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