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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. BaseX vs. Firebolt vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  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.Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlbasex.orgwww.firebolt.iocloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.basex.orgdocs.firebolt.iocloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaBaseX GmbHFirebolt Analytics Inc.Google
Initial release200720202015
Current release11.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyes
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonedepending on storage layerInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerAtomic single-row operations
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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