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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Access vs. Newts vs. RisingWave vs. SAP HANA

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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

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

opennms.github.io/newts

www.risingwave.com/database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

RisingWave Labs

SAP

Initial release

2016

1992

2014

2022

2010

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

1.2, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

UDFs in Python or Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Users and Roles

yes

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