DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EDB Postgres vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EDB Postgres vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts

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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.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.enterprisedb.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

EnterpriseDB

InterSystems

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2005

2018

1989

2014

Current release

14, December 2021

2023.3, June 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java

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.

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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