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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. KeyDB vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA

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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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Widely used RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

hive.apache.org

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

docs.keydb.dev

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2016

2012

2019

1980

2010

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

23c, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Lua

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

simple password-based access control and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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