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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Badger

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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

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

DGraph Labs

Initial release

2016

2012

2007

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

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
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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