DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Newts

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

hive.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

docs.intersystems.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

InterSystems

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2012

1997

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON 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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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