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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt vs. HBase

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebolt.iohbase.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputebigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.firebolt.iohbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAlibabaSoftmotionsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20162016201220202008
Current release2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonCJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-lesshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanonoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornonedepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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