DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FatDB vs. Interbase vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FatDB vs. Interbase vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	2.33
Rank	#118	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.lmdb.tech/doc

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Alibaba

FatCloud

Embarcadero

Symas

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

1984

2011

1989

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

0.9.32, January 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

via applications

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Interbase Change Views

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Immediate 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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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