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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb

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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

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

rethinkdb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2007

2009

2013

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

JavaScript

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Atomic single-document operations

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

users and table-level permissions

simple password-based access control

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