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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. HBase vs. LeanXcale vs. YottaDB

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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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

hbase.apache.org

www.leanxcale.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

hbase.apache.org/book.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

LeanXcale

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2008

2015

2001

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
Java
Scala

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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