DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hazelcast.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hazelcast

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Kinetica

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2010

2012

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
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
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

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

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

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 can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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