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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. DataFS vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Object oriented DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

newdatabase.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Mobiland AG

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2018

2009

1995

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
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)

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

proprietary syntax

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Windows-Profile

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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