DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Lovefield vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Lovefield vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. WakandaDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	WakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database model	Relational DBMS a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.84 Rank #209   Overall #98   Relational DBMS	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS		Score 0.10 Rank #356   Overall #17   Object oriented DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcompute	google.github.io/­lovefield	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	wakanda.github.io
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcompute	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md		wakanda.github.io/­doc
Developer	Alibaba	Google	Sybase, SAP	Wakanda SAS
Initial release	2016	2014	1993	2012
Current release		2.1.12, February 2017		2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	Open Source AGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		JavaScript		C++, JavaScript
Server operating systems	hosted	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	Linux Windows	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	Fluentd Flume MaxCompute Console		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Java	JavaScript	Delphi Perl PHP	JavaScript
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions in Java	no	yes	yes
Triggers	no	Using read-only observers	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes using MemoryDB	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users and roles	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes
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