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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Heroic vs. Realm vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Heroic vs. Realm vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicrealm.iowww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputespotify.github.io/­heroicrealm.io/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAlibabaSpotifyRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Sybase, SAPApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162014201419932014
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyesno
Triggersnonoyes infoChange Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoIn-Memory realmno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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