DBMS > Apache Doris vs. Apache Drill vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Apache Drill vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Widely used RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational 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

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

drill.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

drill.apache.org/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oracle

Initial release

2017

2012

1984

1980

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

23c, September 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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