DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BoltDB vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BoltDB vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Snowflake

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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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

1991

2014

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

JSON 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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

yes

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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