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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrientDB

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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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

druid.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

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

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

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

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

InterSystems

Microsoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2016

2012

2018

1989

2010

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2023.3, June 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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 for querying

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

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

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

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

Sharding

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

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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