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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Altibase vs. PostGIS vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Altibase vs. PostGIS vs. VelocityDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputealtibase.compostgis.netvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualspostgis.net/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2016199920052011
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.4.2, February 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CC#
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Any that supports .NET
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI SQL-92yesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javastored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsno
TriggersnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLBased on Windows Authentication

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