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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift

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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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Primary database model

Relational DBMS info

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

Relational DBMS

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Score	21.24
Rank	#29	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27797.htm

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Initial release

2016

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions info

in Java

user defined functions info

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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