DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. FoundationDB vs. HBase vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. FoundationDB vs. HBase vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the 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

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Wide column store

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/apple/foundationdb

hbase.apache.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

apple.github.io/foundationdb

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

FoundationDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

2008

2007

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2.3.4, January 2021

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

in SQL-layer only

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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