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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. EXASOL vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. EXASOL vs. NuoDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.exasol.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseAmazonExasolDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20161999200720002013
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI SQL-92noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javastored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsJava, SQL
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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