DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. eXtremeDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Google BigQuery vs. Oracle NoSQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. eXtremeDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Google BigQuery vs. Oracle NoSQL

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded 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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.mcobject.com

geospock.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

McObject

GeoSpock

Google

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2001

2010

2011

Current release

8.2, 2021

2.0, September 2019

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

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 and C++

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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