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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. H2GIS vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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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

Spatial extension of H2

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.h2gis.org

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

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

Developer

Alibaba

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM

Initial release

2016

2013

2012

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

based on H2

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

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

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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