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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BaseX vs. Hive vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputebasex.orghive.apache.orgpostgis.netprometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.basex.orgcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homepostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaBaseX GmbHApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20162007201220052015
Current release10.7, August 20233.1.3, April 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factoryes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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