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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dgraph vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Db2

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dgraph vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Db2

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesGraph DBMSEvent StoreKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputedgraph.iowww.eventstore.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedgraph.io/­docsdevelopers.eventstore.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperAlibabaDgraph Labs, Inc.Event Store LimitedGoogleIBM
Initial release20162016201220151983 infohost version
Current release21.2, February 202112.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanonoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSynchronous replication via RaftInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-row operationsACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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