DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Drill vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Drill vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series 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	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

drill.apache.org

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

objectbox.io

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

drill.apache.org/docs

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

docs.objectbox.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

2012

1989

2017

2004

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

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

Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java
PHP
Python

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

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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