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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. ClickHouse vs. Hive vs. Realm vs. VelocityDB

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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.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

clickhouse.com/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

realm.io/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Alibaba

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2011

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.1.3, April 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

.Net

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Sharding

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.

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

In-Memory realm

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 rights for users, groups and roles

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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