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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. VelocityDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Sequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison	VelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
		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	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL	A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database model	Relational DBMS a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables	Relational DBMS	Document store Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.77 Rank #214   Overall #98   Relational DBMS		Score 0.45 Rank #261   Overall #41   Document stores #122   Relational DBMS	Score 0.05 Rank #358   Overall #36   Graph DBMS #16   Object oriented DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcompute	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.sequoiadb.com	velocitydb.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcompute		www.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index	velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developer	Alibaba	Sybase, SAP	Sequoiadb Ltd.	VelocityDB Inc
Initial release	2016	1993	2013	2011
Current release				7.x
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language			C++	C#
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux	Any that supports .NET
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	yes	SQL-like query language	no
APIs and other access methods	Fluentd Flume MaxCompute Console	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	proprietary protocol using JSON	.Net
Supported programming languages	Java	Delphi Perl PHP	.Net C++ Java PHP Python	.Net
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions in Java	yes	JavaScript	no
Triggers	no	yes	no	Callbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	Document is locked during a transaction	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no	yes
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users and roles	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	simple password-based access control	Based on Windows Authentication
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	Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Sequoiadb	VelocityDB
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