DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hive vs. NuoDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hive vs. NuoDB vs. VelocityDB

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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

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hive.apache.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

doc.nuodb.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

2011

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

Eventual Consistency

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Based on Windows Authentication

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