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MaxCompute:Data migration best practices

Last Updated:Sep 21, 2026

This topic describes best practices for data migration, including migrating business or log data to MaxCompute from other platforms and from MaxCompute to other platforms.

Background information

Relational databases are not designed to process large volumes of data. If your relational database contains a large amount of data, you can migrate it to MaxCompute.

MaxCompute offers comprehensive data migration solutions and multiple distributed computing models. This lets you efficiently address challenges related to large-scale data storage and computing, which helps reduce your business costs.

DataWorks provides one-stop data integration, data development, data management, and data administration for MaxCompute. The data integration feature offers a stable, efficient, and elastic data synchronization platform.

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