DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. LeanXcale vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. LeanXcale vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA 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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

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

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.leanxcale.com

manticoresearch.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

manual.manticoresearch.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

LeanXcale

Manticore Software

SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2017

2010

2014

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
Java
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

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

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

yes

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

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