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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FoundationDB vs. HBase vs. RDFox

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Wide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhbase.apache.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputeapple.github.io/­foundationdbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAlibabaFoundationDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2016201320082017
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.3.4, January 20216.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlynono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javain SQL-layer onlyyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnonoyes
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 serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
replication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACRoles, resources, and access types

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