DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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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.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.sqlite.org

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Alibaba

Google

SAP, formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Tencent

Initial release

2016

2015

1994

2000

2013

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Automatic sharding

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

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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