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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Databricks vs. Hive vs. Memcached vs. VelocityDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.databricks.comhive.apache.orgwww.memcached.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.databricks.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikivelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAlibabaDatabricksApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20162013201220032011
Current release3.1.3, April 20221.6.27, May 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagewith Databricks SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Proprietary protocol.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaPython
R
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions and aggregatesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
TriggersnononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolBased on Windows Authentication
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeDatabricksHiveMemcachedVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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