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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TigerGraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegreenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.greenplum.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAlibabaPivotal Software Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2016200520102017
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 4.2nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavayesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access control

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