DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Hive vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Hive vs. LokiJS

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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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

hive.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

2012

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

predefined 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

via views

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

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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, groups and roles

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