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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. atoti vs. Citus vs. Databricks

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesSearch engineObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchatoti.iowww.citusdata.comwww.databricks.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.atoti.iodocs.citusdata.comdocs.databricks.com
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonActiveViamDatabricks
Initial release2016201220102013
Current release8.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)yes infostandard, with numerous extensionswith Databricks SQL
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanoPythonuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functions and aggregates
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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