DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 vs. Realm vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 vs. Realm vs. Snowflake

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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 widely adopted in-memory data grid

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

hazelcast.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

realm.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

realm.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Hazelcast

IBM

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

1983

host version

2014

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Change Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replicated Map

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

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 selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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