DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Doris vs. Hive vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Doris vs. Hive vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

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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

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

hive.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2017

2012

2014

2008

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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