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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ScyllaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographboilerbay.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperAlibabaCambridge SemanticsBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftScyllaDB
Initial release20162018200220102015
Current release2.3, January 20214.0V12ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Python
Java.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions and aggregatesnoTransact SQLyes, Lua
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusternoneyes, with always 3 replicas availableselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
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.noyesnoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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