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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. YottaDB

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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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

hive.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

help.sap.com/hana

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

SAP

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

2010

2001

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Appliance or cloud-service

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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