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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Splice Machine vs. StarRocks

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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

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

splicemachine.com

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Splice Machine

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2020

Current release

3.1, March 2021

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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)

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

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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