DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Ignite vs. Newts vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Ignite vs. Newts vs. Snowflake

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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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

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

ignite.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Atos Convergence Creators

Apache Software Foundation

OpenNMS Group

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

Current release

1703

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

LDAP

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

LDAP bind authentication

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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

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