DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. CockroachDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. CockroachDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J

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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

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#359	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.cockroachlabs.com

boilerbay.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Cockroach Labs

Boiler Bay Inc.

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

2015

2002

1989

2004

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

4.0

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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