DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. GBase vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. GBase vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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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

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.gbase.cn

www.kingbase.com.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2000

2004

1999

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Access control via Jena Security

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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