DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EJDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EJDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LokiJS

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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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Cloud-based data warehousing service

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Alibaba

Softmotions

Google

IBM

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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