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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GreptimeDB vs. Oracle vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Widely used RDBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

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	0.89
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#333	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1254.82
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

greptime.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.greptime.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Alibaba

Greptime Inc.

Oracle

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2022

1980

1993

Current release

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Python

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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