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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. dBASE vs. Geode vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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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

dBase 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.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.dbase.com

geode.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

geode.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Alibaba

Asthon Tate

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

1979

2002

1989

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.1, February 2017

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

yes, on a single node

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

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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