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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. jBASE vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. jBASE vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.snowflake.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Snowflake Computing Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2016199120142022
Current release5.7v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageRust
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rules

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