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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. Newts

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
opennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroichugegraph.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleSpotifyBaiduOpenNMS Group
Initial release20162017201420182014
Current release0.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nonono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACIDno
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users, roles and permissionsno

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