DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. openGemini vs. OpenQM vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. openGemini vs. OpenQM vs. VelocityDB

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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 open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

hive.apache.org

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

docs.opengemini.org/guide

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Huawei and openGemini community

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2012

2022

1993

2011

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

1.1, July 2023

3.4-12

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

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

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HTTP REST

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Administrators and common users accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Based on Windows Authentication

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