DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Couchbase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Redis vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Couchbase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Redis vs. SAP IQ

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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.

A distributed document store with a powerful search engine and in-built operational and analytical capabilities

Cloud 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.

Popular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries

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Score	0.61
Rank	#219	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	28.38
Rank	#30	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	9.32
Rank	#52	Overall
	#10	Document stores

Score	179.02
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	4.82
Rank	#80	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.couchbase.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

redis.com
redis.io

www.sap.com/products/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchbase.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.redis.com/latest/index.html
redis.io/documentation

help.sap.com/iq

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

Couchbase, Inc.

Google

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2011

2017

2009

1994

Current release

Server: 7.0, July 2021; Mobile: 3, February 2022; Couchbase Capella, October 2021

7.0.0, April 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Couchbase Capella: a fully managed database-as-a-service that eliminates database management efforts and reduces cost

Redis Enterprise Cloud: Instantly scale and pay only for the resources you need - on any cloud - AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
ScaleGrid for Redis: Fully managed hosting for Redis on AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean with high availability and SSH access on the #1 multi-cloud DBaaS.

Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Declarative query language (N1QL) that extends ANSI SQL to JSON. First commercial implementation of SQL++.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Lua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes, with Cloud Functions

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Automatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

through RedisGears

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Access Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/topics/acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/topics/encryption
Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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