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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. atoti vs. Kinetica vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake

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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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#200	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#256	Overall
	#12	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#257	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	3.56
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	142.50
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

atoti.io

www.kinetica.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.atoti.io

docs.kinetica.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

ActiveViam

Kinetica

Progress Software Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

1984

2014

Current release

7.1, August 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Python

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

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, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users and groups

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

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