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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. EXASOL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. EXASOL

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#221  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdgraph.iowww.exasol.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdgraph.io/­docswww.exasol.com/­resources
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonDgraph Labs, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerExasol
Initial release20162007201620082000
Current release7.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanononouser defined functions
Triggersnononono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)no infoPlanned for future releasesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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