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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigObject vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigObject vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­documentdbbigobject.iowww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.bigobject.iowww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.ElasticMicrosoft
Initial release20162019201520102015
Current release8.6, January 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanoLuayesno
Triggersnononoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnoneyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesMemcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesnoyes infousing Azure authentication

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