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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.89
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#381  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
#18  Vector DBMS
Score155.58
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.jaguardb.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaDataJaguar, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release201620152014
Current release3.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanouser defined functions
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesrights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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