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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dgraph vs. FeatureBase vs. Hive vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

dgraph.io

www.featurebase.com

hive.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

dgraph.io/docs

docs.featurebase.com

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

SAP

Initial release

2016

2017

2012

2010

Current release

2022, May 2022

3.1.3, April 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL queries

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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

Planned for future releases

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

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