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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 serviceBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column store
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.com
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectHypertable Inc.
Initial release20162019201620122009
Current release1.0.7075, December 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyes infoTransaction Functionsno
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
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 replicasselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesyesnono

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