DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. OceanBase vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. OceanBase vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine

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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 distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.57
Rank	#149	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

en.oceanbase.com

spark.apache.org/sql

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Apache Software Foundation

Splice Machine

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2014

Current release

4.3.0, April 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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