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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Datomic vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Datomic vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA multi-model DBMS and application serverPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.datomic.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachesql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.datomic.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectEmbarcaderoInterSystemsAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20162012198419972012
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023InterBase 2020, December 20192018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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