DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

geospock.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

GeoSpock

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2012

1993

Current release

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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