DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NCache vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NCache vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Microsoft

Alachisoft

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2016

2015

1989

2005

2017

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes, with selectable consistency level

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

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