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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Altibase vs. Apache Kylin vs. IBM Db2

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Altibase vs. Apache Kylin vs. IBM Db2

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  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 RDBMSA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#203  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#171  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score123.05
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputealtibase.comkylin.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualskylin.apache.org/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncIBM
Initial release2016199920151983 infohost version
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.1.0, July 202012.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI SQL-92ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javastored procedures and stored functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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