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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Infobright

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Infobright

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­redshiftblueflood.iowww.hawkular.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperAlibabaAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)RackspaceCommunity supported by Red HatIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release20162012201320142005
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnorestrictednonono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions infoin Pythonnonono
Triggersnononoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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