DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. chDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. chDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx

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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

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

doc.chdb.io

help.sap.com/hana

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

SAP

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2016

2023

2010

2001

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

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