DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. ClickHouse vs. Solr vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. ClickHouse vs. Solr vs. Warp 10

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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 widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

clickhouse.com

solr.apache.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

clickhouse.com/docs

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

SenX

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

2006

2015

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java plugins

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

based on HBase

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

optimistic locking

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

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.

yes

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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