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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Fauna vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Fauna vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopCloud-based data warehousing serviceHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputefauna.comhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousekx.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.fauna.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecode.kx.com
DeveloperAlibabaFauna, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBMKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20162014201220142000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJavaq
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePL/SQL, SQL PLuser defined functions
Triggersnononoyesyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBHiveIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBKdb
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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