DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

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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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

hive.apache.org

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2016

2012

2009

2010

2020

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

2.4.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

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

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

range based

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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