DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpaceTime

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Name

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Mireo

Initial release

2016

1993

2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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