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

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score45.49
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.leanxcale.comwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputehelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaLeanXcaleSAPSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2016201520102014
Current release2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Server operating systemshostedAppliance or cloud-servicehosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infothrough Apache Derbyyesyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
Java
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaSQLScript, Ruser defined functions
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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