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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. SAP HANA

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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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

druid.apache.org

basex.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.basex.org

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

BaseX GmbH

SAP

Initial release

2016

2012

2007

2010

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

10.7, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

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