DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. MaxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. MaxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Trino

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

hive.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

trino.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SAP

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

1984

2010

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

SQLScript, R

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

yes

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

SQL standard access control

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