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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. STSdb vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. STSdb vs. Yanza

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingCloud-based data warehousing serviceElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4yanza.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAlibabaIBMMicrosoftSTS Soft SCYanza
Initial release20162014201620112015
Current release4.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++C#
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedWindowsWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)no
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
C#
Java
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaPL/SQL, SQL PLTransact SQLnono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnono

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