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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

drill.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

drill.apache.org/docs

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

1989

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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