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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cachelot.io vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. PostGIS

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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

In-memory caching system

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	2.69
Rank	#101	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cachelot.io

cloud.google.com/spanner

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Initial release

2016

2015

2017

2005

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Memcached protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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