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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. NCache vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle vs. SQLite

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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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Widely used RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.oracle.com/database

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba

Alachisoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2005

2013

1980

2000

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

23c, September 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Public Domain

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#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
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
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

via file-system locks

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

Temporary table

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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