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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. dBASE vs. GBase vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. dBASE vs. GBase vs. Heroic

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.dbase.comwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasespotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAlibabaAsthon TateGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Spotify
Initial release2016197920042014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavadBase proprietary IDEC#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesyes

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