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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. DuckDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Snowflake

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it 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 warehousingAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSServerless Time Series DBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeduckdb.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputeduckdb.org/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaHyprcubd, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release201620182014
Current release0.10, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Go
Server operating systemshostedserver-lesshostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (https)CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanonouser defined functions
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnotoken accessUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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