DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google BigQuery vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google BigQuery vs. SAP HANA

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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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition

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Score	0.74
Rank	#196	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	36.26
Rank	#24	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	51.00
Rank	#20	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27797.htm

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Google

SAP

Initial release

2016

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS05 (June 26, 2020), June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) for whole datasets, not for individual tables

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

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