DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Badger vs. Hive vs. MariaDB vs. MarkLogic

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Badger vs. Hive vs. MariaDB vs. MarkLogic

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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

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	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

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

hive.apache.org

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.marklogic.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.marklogic.com

Developer

Alibaba

DGraph Labs

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

MarkLogic Corp.

Initial release

2016

2017

2012

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2001

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

11.3.2, February 2024

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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