DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EJDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EJDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenEdge

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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)

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

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

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Alibaba

Softmotions

InterSystems

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2016

2012

2018

2014

1984

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

JSON 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

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and groups

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