DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Kdb vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Kdb vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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

High performance Time Series DBMS

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational 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	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

kx.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sql.js.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

code.kx.com

help.sap.com/hana

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Alibaba

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

SAP

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Rocket Software

Initial release

2016

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2010

2012

1985

Current release

3.6, May 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

rights management via user accounts

yes

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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