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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenEdge

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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.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Native XML DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

basex.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.basex.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Alibaba

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2016

2007

2015

1984

Current release

10.7, August 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

using Azure authentication

Users and groups

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