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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. DataFS vs. FileMaker

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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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#362	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

newdatabase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Mobiland AG

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

2016

2018

1983

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Windows-Profile

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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