DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Badger vs. GeoSpock vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Badger vs. GeoSpock vs. Snowflake

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded 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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

geospock.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

DGraph Labs

GeoSpock

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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

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