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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Pinecone vs. Solr

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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 managed, cloud-native vector database

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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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	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.pinecone.io

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

2019

2006

Current release

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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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