DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hazelcast vs. Kinetica vs. YugabyteDB

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

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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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

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

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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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	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#99	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hazelcast.com

www.kinetica.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.kinetica.com

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hazelcast

Kinetica

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2012

2017

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

7.1, August 2021

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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 and roles on table level

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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