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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Hazelcast

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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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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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	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.graphengine.io

hazelcast.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Microsoft

Hazelcast

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2008

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replicated Map

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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)

Role-based access control

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