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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. etcd vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. etcd vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  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.A distributed reliable key-value storeCloud 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.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
firebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
firebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaGoogleMicrosoft
Initial release20172016
Current release3.4, August 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsTransact SQL
Triggersyesyesyes, watching key changesyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.yes
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