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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Greenplum vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Greenplum vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenQM

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Multivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegreenplum.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.greenplum.orgspotify.github.io/­heroiclearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-db
DeveloperAlibabaPivotal Software Inc.SpotifyMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release20162005201420141993
Current release7.0.0, September 20233.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoJSON types
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavayesnoJavaScriptyes
TriggersnoyesnoJavaScriptyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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