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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EJDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. STSdb

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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)

Cloud-based data warehousing service

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

Developer

Alibaba

Softmotions

IBM

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2005

2011

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

hosted

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

in-process shared library

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

PL/SQL, SQL PL

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

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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