DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Brytlyt vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Brytlyt vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

A 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.

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

brytlyt.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

docs.brytlyt.io

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Alibaba

Brytlyt

Google

acquired by Google 2014

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

2014

Current release

5.0, August 2023

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

limited functionality with using 'rules'

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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