DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Riak KV 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

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

RDF store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

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

www.marklogic.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

docs.marklogic.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

MarkLogic Corp.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

2001

2009

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

11.0, December 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access control via Jena Security

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

yes, using Riak Security

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

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