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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigObject vs. GBase vs. IBM Cloudant

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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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

bigobject.io

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Alibaba

BigObject, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2016

2015

2004

2010

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Lua

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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