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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. ClickHouse vs. Google BigQuery vs. Speedb

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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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

clickhouse.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

clickhouse.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Clickhouse Inc.

Google

Speedb

Initial release

2016

2010

2020

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

key based and custom

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

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 for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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