History - MaxCompute - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

This topic provides an overview of the key milestones and achievements of Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute.

Key milestones

In September 2009, the ODPS big data platform, which is the predecessor of MaxCompute, was officially launched.
In October 2010, ODPS ran stably as the first-generation cloud computing platform developed by Alibaba Group.
As of August 2013, up to 5,000 servers can be deployed in a single cluster.
In July 2014, ODPS was released for commercial use to completely replace open source systems.
Between 2015 and 2018, the platform grew to maturity with optimized performance and global presence. More than 10,000 servers can be deployed in a single cluster. ODPS was later renamed MaxCompute.
Between 2018 and 2022, MaxCompute V3.0 was released to deliver better performance and save 30% of the overall cost. The enterprise-class security performance was continuously improved, and the intelligent data warehousing and Hadoop federated computing features were released.

Awards

Year	Award
2023	MaxCompute was named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for cloud databases and data analysis.
2022	The Alibaba Cloud product ODPS, an all-in-one big data computing platform and data warehouse, was recognized as a world-leading Internet scientific and technological achievement. MaxCompute took first place in the TPCx-BB 100-TB benchmarking test in terms of performance and cost-effectiveness. This achievement was maintained for six consecutive years. The Alibaba Cloud cloud data warehouse (CDW) solution, represented by MaxCompute, was named a Strong Performer in the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Data Warehouse report. This report is released every two years. Alibaba Cloud was the only candidate from the Chinese mainland. MaxCompute was named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for cloud databases and data analysis. MaxCompute took first place in the TPCx-BB 30-TB benchmarking test and TPC-DS 10-TB benchmarking test in terms of performance and cost-effectiveness. MaxCompute was showcased as a world-leading Internet scientific and technological achievement at the World Internet Conference.
2021	IDC released the IDC MarketScape: China Government Big Data Management Platform 2021 Vendor Assessment report. In this report, Alibaba Cloud was named a leader in the industry and ranked first in the Chinese mainland in terms of product capabilities. The Alibaba Cloud CDW solution, represented by MaxCompute, was named a Strong Performer in the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Data Warehouse, Q1 2021 report. Alibaba Cloud was the only candidate from the Chinese mainland. MaxCompute was named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for cloud databases and data analysis. MaxCompute took first place in the TPCx-BB 30-TB benchmarking test and TPC-DS 10-TB benchmarking test in terms of performance and cost-effectiveness.
2020	Alibaba Cloud was named a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems. MaxCompute and E-MapReduce (EMR) were recognized as computing platforms that provide security protection, high stability, and high performance. MaxCompute was named a leader in big data management platforms in the Chinese mainland based on an IDC MarketScape report. The Alibaba Cloud CDW solution, represented by MaxCompute, was named a Strong Performer in the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Data Warehouse report. This report is released every two years. Alibaba Cloud was the only candidate from the Chinese mainland. MaxCompute was named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for cloud databases and data analysis. MaxCompute took first place in the TPCx-BB 30-TB benchmarking test and TPC-DS 10-TB benchmarking test in terms of performance and cost-effectiveness.
2019	MaxCompute took first place in the TPCx-BB 30-TB benchmarking test and TPC-DS 10-TB benchmarking test in terms of performance and cost-effectiveness. MaxCompute won the Galaxy award as one of the top 10 big data products in 2019.
2018	Several customer cases that are related to MaxCompute won the 2017 Big Data Outstanding Product and Application Solution Cases Award. In the public cloud-based BigBench test, the performance of MaxCompute in processing 100 TB of data reached 18176.71 queries per minute (QPM), which doubled that from October 2017. The performance of MaxCompute in processing 10 TB of data was three times that of other open source systems. MaxCompute was listed in big data services of the Forrester Wave™ Cloud Data Warehouse, Q1 2018 report. Alibaba Cloud was listed as a cloud service provider in the 2017 Magic Quadrant™ for Data Management Solutions for Analytics (DMSA) report released by Gartner. Alibaba Cloud, represented by MaxCompute, was positioned as a contender in CDW in the Forrester Wave™ Cloud Data Warehouse, Q4 2018 report. MaxCompute was awarded as a big data innovative product in 2018 at the China Digital Transformation and Innovation Case Conference. MaxCompute won the Top 10 Big Data Best Practice Cases at the China International Big Data Industry Expo.
2017	TPC benchmarks adapted to MaxCompute. The first global public cloud-based BigBench big data benchmark test was conducted on MaxCompute to process up to 100 TB of data with a performance of 7,830 QPM. This made MaxCompute the first engine in the world to exceed the data processing performance of 7,000 QPM. MaxCompute won the Gold Medal at the China International Software Expo. MaxCompute won a special award for scientific and technological advancements issued by the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE). This award is recognized as the Golden Palm Award for science and technology. The core technologies and industrialization of the Apsara distributed operating system of Alibaba Cloud won a special award for scientific and technological advancements.
2016	In the CloudSort competition, MaxCompute won the world championships of Indy (special-purpose sort) and Daytona (general-purpose sort) with a record of USD 0.82/TB. This broke the USD 4.51/TB world record made by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2014. MaxCompute broke two world records at Sort Benchmark.
2015	In the GraySort benchmark competition, MaxCompute sorted 100 TB of data in 377 seconds, which broke the 1406-second world record made by Apache Spark. MaxCompute broke four world records at Sort Benchmark.

Certifications

MaxCompute attained certifications from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) as one of the first batch of cloud-native data lakehouses in the Chinese mainland.
MaxCompute attained the highest level (level-3) certification from CAICT as the first all-in-one data platform solution in the Chinese mainland.
MaxCompute attained certifications from CAICT as the first serverless big data platform in the Chinese mainland.
MaxCompute attained certifications from CAICT and China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI).
MaxCompute attained certifications from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) as the first big data platform in the Chinese mainland that can support up to 10,000 servers in a single cluster.
MaxCompute passed an independent third-party audit on compliance with the trusted service criteria for security, availability, and confidentiality established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). For more information about the audit report, see SOC 3 Report.
MaxCompute passed the stability test of the distributed batch processing platform performed by CAICT.

As a distributed platform to batch process large amounts of data, MaxCompute passed the test for review and certification from CAICT. More than 30,000 servers can be deployed in a cluster of MaxCompute.
MaxCompute passed the first batch of stability tests of big data platforms in the Chinese mainland, and was recognized as a resilient system.

Global recognition for advancements in the formulation of big data standards

Alibaba, represented by MaxCompute, is the only company in the Chinese mainland to become a special member of the TPCx-BB.
Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) is one of the top two open source systems for computing and storage standardization. As a Project Management Committee (PMC) member of the ORC community, MaxCompute engineers contributed the most code to the community in the previous two years.
MaxCompute is an active player in Apache Calcite, the most famous optimizer project in the world. MaxCompute has become a special member of the project, making Alibaba Cloud one of the two leading companies in the optimizer field in the Chinese mainland.