DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. ArangoDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Oracle vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. ArangoDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Oracle vs. WakandaDB

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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

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Widely used RDBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

arangodb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.oracle.com/database

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.arangodb.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.oracle.com/en/database

wakanda.github.io/doc

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

ArangoDB Inc.

IBM

Oracle

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2012

1983

host version

1980

2012

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

12.1, October 2016

23c, September 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

JavaScript

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

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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