DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Druid vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

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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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational 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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

druid.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

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

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

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

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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.

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

rights management via user accounts

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

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