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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Oracle vs. RDFox

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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

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Widely used RDBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.oracle.com/database

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Oracle

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2016

2012

1980

2017

Current release

23c, September 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

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

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

RDF schemas

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

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