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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Ehcache vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.ehcache.org

www.snowflake.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Alibaba

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

2009

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JCache

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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