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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value store
Wide column store
RDF storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
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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
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­bigtablerdf4j.orgsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha
Initial release20162015200420122018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyesnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenonenone
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 zonesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonono

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