DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dragonfly vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dragonfly vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Widely used RDBMS

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column 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

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.oracle.com/database

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Alibaba

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2023

2009

1980

2012

Current release

1.0, March 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
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

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Lua

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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