DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQream DB

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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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#241	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	3.39
Rank	#104	Overall
	#20	Document stores
	#19	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	902.22
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#250	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Alibaba

InterSystems

Microsoft

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2018

1989

2017

Current release

2021.1, June 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Scalability when processing bigger datasets. Faster business insights, with more...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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