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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Cubrid vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP HANA

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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

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

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

hive.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cubrid.org/manuals

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2016

2008

2012

2015

2010

Current release

11.0, January 2021

3.1.3, April 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

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

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 rights for users, groups and roles

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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