DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J

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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

A distributed database focused on speed and ease of use. It has an intuitive REST API, and supports NoSQL and SQL including joins. HarperDB leverages standard interfaces, and users can be up and running in minutes.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#196	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#229	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1015.30
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#232	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

harperdb.io

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27797.htm

harperdb.io/developers/documentation/overview

docs.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

HarperDB

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

2017

1989

2004

Current release

2.3.1, January 2021

SQL Server 2019, November 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

6,800 + npm downloads 1,600 + on Docker Hub 2,300 + cloud & local signups
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Licensing and pricing models

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