DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Cassandra vs. EDB Postgres vs. Geode vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Cassandra vs. EDB Postgres vs. Geode vs. SAP HANA

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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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.86
Rank	#131	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org

www.enterprisedb.com

geode.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

geode.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

EnterpriseDB

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

SAP

Initial release

2016

2008

2005

2002

2010

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

14, December 2021

1.1, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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 for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

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