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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. Lovefield vs. Trafodion vs. TypeDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 warehousingdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputehive.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldtrafodion.apache.orgtypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookGoogleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVaticle
Initial release20162012201420142016
Current release3.1.3, April 20222.1.12, February 20172.3.0, February 20192.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++, JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAll JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoJava Stored Proceduresno
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornoneyes, via HBaseMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeHiveLovefieldTrafodionTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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