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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. CouchDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Geode vs. Interbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.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 processesLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#203  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecouchdb.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.comgeode.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.enterprisedb.com/­docsgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerEnterpriseDBOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Embarcadero
Initial release20162005200520021984
Current release3.3.3, December 202314, December 20211.1, February 2017InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangCJavaC
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationMulti-source replicationInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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