DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FileMaker vs. Oracle vs. Rockset vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FileMaker vs. Oracle vs. Rockset vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Widely used RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database

rockset.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.rockset.com

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

Rockset

Initial release

2016

1983

1980

2019

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

PHP

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Role-based access control

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