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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. ClickHouse vs. Lovefield 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

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#186	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	7.61
Rank	#54	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#229	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	15.53
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

clickhouse.tech

google.github.io/lovefield

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27797.htm

clickhouse.tech/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Yandex LLC

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2014

Current release

v20.11.3.3-stable, November 2020

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

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

Close to ANSI SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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
Scala

3rd party library

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

yes

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

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