DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.h2database.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Google

Thomas Mueller

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2017

2005

2013

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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