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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. EXASOL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. EXASOL

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­neptuneaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.enterprisedb.comwww.exasol.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.exasol.com/­resources
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonAmazonEnterpriseDBExasol
Initial release20162017200720052000
Current release14, December 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Lua
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanonouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functions
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.yesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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