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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Datomic vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RocksDB

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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.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.datomic.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Cognitect

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2013

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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