DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google BigQuery vs. OushuDB vs. Splunk vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google BigQuery vs. OushuDB vs. Splunk vs. SQream DB

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Analytics Platform for Big Data

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.splunk.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Oushu

Splunk Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2010

2003

2017

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Access rights for users and roles

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