DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle vs. PouchDB

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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.

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/database

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Alibaba

Google

acquired by Google 2014

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2011

1980

2012

Current release

23c, September 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

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

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

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

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