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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded 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 warehousingMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­datastorewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­datastore/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAlibabaDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoft
Initial release20162008200820102015
Current release7.2.4, September 2012V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details herenoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (GQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanousing Google App EngineView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.Callbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authentication

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