DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB

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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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store
Wide column store

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Rank	#221	Overall
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Score	3.58
Rank	#92	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigtable

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Microsoft

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2007

2013

Current release

14.1, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

configurable

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

using Azure authentication

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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