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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. HyperSQL vs. PostGIS vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB

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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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

postgis.net/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Cesbit

Initial release

2016

2001

2005

2004

2017

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

MIT License

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

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Java, SQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple rights management via user accounts

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