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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBSearch engineRDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputehsqldb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaIBMMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release201620011983 infohost version20152004
Current release2.7.2, June 202312.1, October 2016V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaJava, SQLyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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