DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. NSDb vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. NSDb vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

If a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/scalar-data-types/dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store

this is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

support for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS

see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/time-series-analysis

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	3.80
Rank	#81	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2019

2017

2005

Current release

cloud service with continuous releases

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/scalar-data-types

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API

Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

R packages

Triggers

yes

see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/management/updatepolicy

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding