DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. SpatiaLite

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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

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.scylladb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

help.sap.com/hana

docs.scylladb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

SAP

ScyllaDB

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2015

2008

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

SQLScript, R

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

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
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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