DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

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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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/hana

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

quasardb

SAP

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2015

2009

2010

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

using Azure authentication

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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