DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. KairosDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. KairosDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com/resources

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Exasol

TempoIQ

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

2013

2012

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data 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

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

simple authentication-based access control

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