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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. PostGIS vs. Valentina Server vs. YDB

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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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Object-relational database and reports server

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

postgis.net

www.valentina-db.net

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

postgis.net/documentation

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Paradigma Software

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2005

1999

2019

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Active-passive shard replication

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

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

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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