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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2016

2010

2012

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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 operations within a document possible

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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 can be defined per database

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

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