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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LevelDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LevelDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.92
Rank#195  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.33
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­google/­leveldb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.md
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Google
Initial release20122011
Current release1.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesno
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAlibaba Cloud PolarDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseLevelDB
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