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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hazelcast vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hazelcast.com

hive.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hazelcast

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2012

2015

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

using Azure authentication

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