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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hive vs. VelocityDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingdBase 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.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.78
Rank#221  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#347  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.dbase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablehive.apache.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homevelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAlibabaAsthon TateGoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20161979201520122011
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.1.3, April 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedAll OS with a Java VMAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavadBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
TriggersnonononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesBased on Windows Authentication

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