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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BaseX vs. Cubrid vs. mSQL vs. VoltDB

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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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

basex.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.basex.org

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba

BaseX GmbH

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Hughes Technologies

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2007

2008

1994

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

11.0, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Java

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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