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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. SAP HANA

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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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS info

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition

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Score	0.36
Rank	#225	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	55.34
Rank	#21	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27797.htm

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

SAP

Initial release

2016

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS03, April 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions info

in Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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