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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Heroic vs. PostGIS vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/spotify/heroic

postgis.net

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

spotify.github.io/heroic

postgis.net/documentation

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Alibaba

Spotify

Tencent

Initial release

2016

2014

2005

2013

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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