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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS vs. VelocityDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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 warehousingA multi-model DBMS and application serverBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#203  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orgsql.js.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAlibabaInterSystemsAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersVelocityDB Inc
Initial release201619972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122011
Current release2018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 20187.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript API.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayesuser defined functionsnono
TriggersnoyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoBased on Windows Authentication

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