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

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  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.An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.77
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.21
Rank#182  Overall
#83  Relational DBMS
Score15.07
Rank#38  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlaltibase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release19992012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL-92no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 rules
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAltibaseFirebase Realtime Database
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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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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