DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GridDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GridDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SiriDB

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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

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

griddb.net

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.griddb.net

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Toshiba Corporation

IBM

Cesbit

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

2014

2017

Current release

5.1, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

Numeric data

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

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

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

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

ACID at container level

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 can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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