DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kinetica.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

1992

Current release

7.1, August 2021

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

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
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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 depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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