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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroradrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonApache Software FoundationGoogle
Initial release20162015201220162015
Current release1.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languagePython
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languagesJavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoAtomic single-row operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesDepending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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