DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EsgynDB vs. Geode vs. HarperDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EsgynDB vs. Geode vs. HarperDB vs. Snowflake

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Esgyn

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

HarperDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2002

2017

2014

Current release

1.1, February 2017

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Node.js

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data 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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

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

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users and roles

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

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.