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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. SAP HANA vs. TDengine vs. TerminusDB

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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

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF 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	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

hive.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

help.sap.com/hana

docs.tdengine.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

SAP

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2019

2018

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.0, August 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

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

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes

Journaling Streams

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

yes

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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

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