DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. KairosDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. KairosDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.exasol.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.exasol.com/resources

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Exasol

FatCloud

SAP

Initial release

2016

2000

2012

2013

2010

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

yes

via applications

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple password-based access control

yes

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