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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Kylin vs. GridDB vs. Hive vs. Vertica

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Datadata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputekylin.apache.orggriddb.nethive.apache.orgwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputekylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.griddb.netcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homevertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncToshiba CorporationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20162015201320122005
Current release3.1.0, July 20205.1, August 20223.1.3, April 202212.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnoyesnoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeApache KylinGridDBHiveVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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