DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FileMaker vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FileMaker vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake vs. Weaviate

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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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.snowflake.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Alibaba

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

1983

2015

2014

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users and roles

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

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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