DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google BigQuery vs. OceanBase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google BigQuery vs. OceanBase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TerarkDB

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigquery

en.oceanbase.com

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

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

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

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Alibaba

Google

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Oracle

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

2010

2011

2016

Current release

4.3.0, April 2024

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

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

commercial

restricted open source version available

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++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication using Paxos

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

none

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Licensing and pricing models

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