DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. Tkrzw

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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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gridgain.com

hazelcast.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Hazelcast

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2016

2012

2007

2008

2020

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

5.3.6, November 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Replicated Map

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Role-based access control

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