DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	2.20
Rank	#119	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/neptune

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.intersystems.com

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Google

InterSystems

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2016

2017

2010

1997

2015

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-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.

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

in-memory tables

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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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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