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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Graph Engine vs. SQL.JS

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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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

2010

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

no

Triggers

no

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

no

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