DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Greenplum vs. Heroic vs. OpenQM vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Greenplum vs. Heroic vs. OpenQM vs. RethinkDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A 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 ElasticSearch

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

greenplum.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.greenplum.org

spotify.github.io/heroic

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Pivotal Software Inc.

Spotify

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2016

2005

2014

1993

2009

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

3.4-12

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

since Version 4.2

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

users and table-level permissions

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Meet some database management systems you are likely to hear more about in the future
4 August 2014, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Denodo and Alibaba Cloud Partner to Bring Data Virtualization to the Global Market
5 July 2023, Datanami

Streaming Data Services Comparison: Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud
20 January 2020, Wire19

Alibaba Cloud unveils serverless solution for generative AI
4 July 2024, Tech Wire Asia

Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore Node Suffers Network Disruption Due to Data Center Fire
10 September 2024, Pandaily

Alibaba Cloud hit by Digital Realty fire in Singapore
11 September 2024, Frontier Enterprise

provided by Google News

Chapter 1. Introducing the Greenplum Database
6 December 2018, O'Reilly Media

VMware Greenplum on AWS: Parallel Postgres for Enterprise Analytics at Scale
9 September 2019, AWS Blog

Greenplum 6 ventures outside the analytic box
19 March 2019, ZDNet

RSA: EMC integrates Hadoop with Greenplum database
26 February 2013, DatacenterDynamics

EMC Introduces Breakthrough 'Big Data' Computing System
13 October 2010, PR Newswire

provided by Google News

An introduction to building realtime apps with RethinkDB
9 July 2022, devm.io

Stripe acquires team behind NoSQL database startup RethinkDB
5 October 2016, VentureBeat

How to Use RethinkDB with Node.js Applications
16 December 2015, SitePoint

How to deploy RethinkDB using Docker
14 February 2018, Packt Hub

MongoDB: The Popular Database for the Internet of Things
15 August 2023, Open Source For You

provided by Google News

Share this page