DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cubrid vs. Ehcache vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cubrid vs. Ehcache vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.ehcache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/bigtable

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cubrid.org/manuals

www.ehcache.org/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

Developer

Alibaba

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

Initial release

2016

2008

2009

2010

2015

Current release

11.0, January 2021

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JCache

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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