DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. HyperSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. HyperSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TDengine

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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

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

hsqldb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Alibaba

SAP

formerly Sybase

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2016

2001

2010

1992

2019

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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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

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Java, SQL

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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