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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP IQ vs. Stardog vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza 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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.stardog.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Alibaba

ObjectBox Limited

SAP, formerly Sybase

Stardog-Union

Yanza

Initial release

2016

2017

1994

2010

2015

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

online/offline synchronization between client and server

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

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14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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