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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RethinkDB vs. TDengine

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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

Widely used RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series 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

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.oracle.com/database

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

rethinkdb.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.oracle.com/en/database

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

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Alibaba

Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2016

1980

1984

2009

2019

Current release

23c, September 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions 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 and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

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

yes, on a single node

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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