DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed 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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

postgis.net

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

doc.nuodb.com

postgis.net/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2016

2013

2005

2014

2012

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple authentication-based access control

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