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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Impala vs. OpenEdge vs. RDF4J vs. SpatiaLite

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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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

impala.apache.org

www.progress.com/openedge

rdf4j.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Progress Software Corporation

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

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2013

1984

2004

2008

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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-like DML and DDL statements

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Users and groups

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