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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EDB Postgres vs. Geode vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EDB Postgres vs. Geode vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSKey-value storeColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#203  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.enterprisedb.comgeode.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.enterprisedb.com/­docsgeode.apache.org/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAlibabaEnterpriseDBOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GridGain Systems, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20162005200220072010
Current release14, December 20211.1, February 2017GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial, open sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageCJavaJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definableRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
Access rights for users can be defined per database

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