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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Databricks vs. Derby vs. Snowflake

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.databricks.comdb.apache.org/­derbywww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.databricks.comdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaDatabricksApache Software FoundationSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2016201319972014
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagewith Databricks SQLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaPython
R
Scala
JavaJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions and aggregatesJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeDatabricksDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBSnowflake
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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