DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. ObjectBox

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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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

yes

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