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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. MaxDB vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. MaxDB vs. Pinecone

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.commaxdb.sap.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAlibabaHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20162016201219842019
Current release5.10, January 20227.1, August 20217.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoRound robinShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
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.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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