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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. VelocityDB vs. XTDB

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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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

velocitydb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

SAP, Sybase

VelocityDB Inc

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1987

2011

2019

Current release

16.0

7.x

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Any that supports .NET

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.Net

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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