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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Ignite vs. PostGIS

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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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

ignite.apache.org

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2015

2005

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes (replicated cache)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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