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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.postgresql.fastware.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storelearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyIBMMicrosoftRockset
Initial release2016201719892019
Current releaseFujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20222.0SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.nonoyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functionsyesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicepartitioning by range, list and by hashShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)No - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
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 rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeFujitsu Enterprise PostgresIBM Db2 Event StoreMicrosoft SQL ServerRockset
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Market metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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