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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/hana

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Alibaba

Embarcadero

Kinetica

SAP

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

1984

2012

2010

2016

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

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