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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. jBASE vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2016

2007

1991

2023

Current release

5.7

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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