DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EDB Postgres vs. Geode vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EDB Postgres vs. Geode vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

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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

The 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 processes

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#131	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.enterprisedb.com

geode.apache.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

EnterpriseDB

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2005

2002

2017

2014

Current release

14, December 2021

1.1, February 2017

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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