DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Yaacomo

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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 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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

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

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Microsoft

Rocket Software

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2017

2014

1985

2009

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

optional

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

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

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

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

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

JavaScript

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate 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

ACID

configurable

ACID

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

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 rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

A real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
» more

Competitive advantages

TPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

Available regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.