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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google BigQuery vs. Realm vs. Transbase

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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 DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store

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	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigquery

realm.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

realm.io/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2010

2014

1987

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

yes

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

In-Memory realm

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)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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