DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J

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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

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.kinetica.com

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

docs.kinetica.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Kinetica

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

2012

2004

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

RDF Schemas

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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