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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  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 AmazonWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.86
Rank#200  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score7.66
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score97.71
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score799.81
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroracassandra.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookMicrosoftOracle
Initial release20162015200819892007
Current release5.0-rc1, July 2024SQL Server 2022, November 202214.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
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#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavayesnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsApache Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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