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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EsgynDB vs. FileMaker vs. H2GIS vs. PouchDB

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Spatial extension of H2

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.esgyn.cn

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2gis.org

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Alibaba

Esgyn

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2015

1983

2013

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

PHP

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

based on H2

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