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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Neptune vs. TigerGraph

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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, reliable graph database built for the cloud

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#182	Overall
	#81	Relational DBMS

Score	2.13
Rank	#111	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	1.42
Rank	#149	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Initial release

2016

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

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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