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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. RDFox

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value store
Wide column store
Document storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorigodb.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantorigodb.com/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Robert Friberg et alOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2016201520102009 infounder the name LiveDB2017
Current release6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC#C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.NetC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesno
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 in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorizationRoles, resources, and access types

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