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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebolt vs. Greenplum vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebolt vs. Greenplum vs. Hypertable

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.firebolt.iogreenplum.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.firebolt.iodocs.greenplum.org
DeveloperAlibabaFirebolt Analytics Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.Hypertable Inc.
Initial release2016202020052009
Current release7.0.0, September 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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