DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Badger vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Badger vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle

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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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

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

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Alibaba

DGraph Labs

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2017

1983

2010

1980

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

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

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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