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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. dBASE vs. Firebird vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  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.High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseCloud 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.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#8  Vector DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlallegrograph.comwww.dbase.comwww.firebirdsql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestore
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAlibabaFranz Inc.Asthon TateFirebird FoundationGoogle
Initial release200419792000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2017
Current release8.0, December 2023dBASE 2019, 20195.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesno infobulk load of XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.PSQLyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicewith FederationnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAllegroGraphdBASEFirebirdGoogle Cloud Firestore
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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