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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hazelcast vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hazelcast vs. RDFox

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  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.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A widely adopted in-memory data gridHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehazelcast.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014HazelcastOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2016201220082017
Current release5.3.6, November 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes infoReplicated Mapreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlRoles, resources, and access types
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLBigchainDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseHazelcastRDFox
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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