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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score45.49
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#243  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.snowflake.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputehelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaSAPSnowflake Computing Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2016201020142012
Current release2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesno infoalso available as a cloud based serviceyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAppliance or cloud-servicehostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaSQLScript, Ruser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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