DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. JaguarDB vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. JaguarDB vs. searchxml

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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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.jaguardb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.datastax.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

DataStax

DataJaguar, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

2012

2011

2015

Current release

6.8, April 2020

3.3 July 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

multiple readers, single writer

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

rights management via user accounts

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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