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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Graph Engine vs. mSQL vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Rdb

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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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.graphengine.io

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2016

2010

1994

1980

1984

Current release

4.4, October 2021

23c, September 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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

.NET and C

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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