DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Lovefield vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Lovefield vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime

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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

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Google

SAP

Mireo

Initial release

2016

2019

2014

2010

2020

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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