DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. KairosDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. KairosDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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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

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.exasol.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.exasol.com/resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

kairosdb.github.io

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Alibaba

Exasol

Google

Tencent

Initial release

2016

2000

2010

2013

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

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

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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