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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RavenDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaKineticaMicrosoftMicrosoftHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20162012201520162010
Current release7.1, August 2021V15.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++C++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedhostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functionsnoTransact SQLyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing Azure authenticationyesAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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