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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score62.67
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score78.51
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­bigqueryazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleMicrosoftTencent
Initial release2016201020102013
Current releaseV12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions infoin JavaScriptTransact SQLyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, with always 3 replicas availableMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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