DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. ClickHouse vs. Graph Engine vs. PieCloudDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. ClickHouse vs. Graph Engine vs. PieCloudDB

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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 high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

clickhouse.com

www.graphengine.io

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

clickhouse.com/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

OpenPie

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

2010

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

.NET

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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