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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. OrientDB

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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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2016

1999

2012

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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