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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FileMaker vs. SAP HANA vs. YDB

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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.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SAP

Yandex

Initial release

2016

1983

2010

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

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

yes

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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