DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Faircom DB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Faircom DB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparison	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	VelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	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
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.84 Rank #209   Overall #98   Relational DBMS	Score 0.29 Rank #304   Overall #43   Key-value stores #136   Relational DBMS		Score 0.11 Rank #354   Overall #37   Graph DBMS #15   Object oriented DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcompute	www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	velocitydb.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcompute	docs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html		velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developer	Alibaba	FairCom Corporation	Sybase, SAP	VelocityDB Inc
Initial release	2016	1979	1993	2011
Current release		V12, November 2020		7.x
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial Restricted, free version available	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		ANSI C, C++		C#
Server operating systems	hosted	AIX FreeBSD HP-UX Linux NetBSD OS X QNX SCO Solaris VxWorks Windows easily portable to other OSs	Linux Windows	Any that supports .NET
Data scheme	yes	schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions	yes	no
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	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	.Net
Supported programming languages	Java	.Net C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js and browser) PHP Python Visual Basic	Delphi Perl PHP	.Net
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions in Java	yes .Net, JavaScript, C/C++	yes	no
Triggers	no	yes	yes	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	none	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).	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users and roles	Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Based on Windows Authentication
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	Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	VelocityDB
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