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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. STSdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAlibabaDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMicrosoftSTS Soft SC
Initial release2016200820162011
Current release7.2.4, September 20124.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++C#
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Java
PHP
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanoTransact SQLno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyesno

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