DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. IBM Db2 vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. IBM Db2 vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS vs. Warp 10

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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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sql.js.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

help.sap.com/hana

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Alibaba

IBM

SAP

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

SenX

Initial release

2016

1983

host version

2010

2012

2015

Current release

12.1, October 2016

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

yes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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