DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Google BigQuery vs. MarkLogic

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Google BigQuery vs. MarkLogic

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.marklogic.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.datastax.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.marklogic.com

Developer

Alibaba

Atos Convergence Creators

DataStax

Google

MarkLogic Corp.

Initial release

2016

2011

2010

2001

Current release

1703

6.8, April 2020

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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 (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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

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

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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