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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Heroic vs. Quasardb vs. WakandaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 ScioreTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicquasar.aiwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbspotify.github.io/­heroicdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonSpotifyquasardbWakanda SAS
Initial release20162007201420092012
Current release3.14.1, January 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanononoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
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)Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes

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