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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Faircom DB vs. Hive vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

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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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

hive.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Alibaba

FairCom Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

1979

2012

2014

2011

Current release

V12, November 2020

3.1.3, April 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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 with additional protections for files

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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