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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 ScioreMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.kinetica.comrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.kinetica.comdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKineticaRockset
Initial release20162007200820122019
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++C, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnono
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 infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
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)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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