DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Graphite vs. Hive vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Graphite vs. Hive vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP HANA

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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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

hive.apache.org

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

graphite.readthedocs.io

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Chris Davis

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Percona

SAP

Initial release

2016

2006

2012

2008

2010

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

8.0.36-28, 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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