DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. KairosDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. KairosDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake vs. YTsaurus

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

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	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.snowflake.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/hana

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Alibaba

SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2013

2010

2014

2023

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

simple password-based access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access Control Lists

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