DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Prometheus

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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

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DGraph Labs

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2016

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

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

yes

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