DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Document store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/bigtable

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Alibaba

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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 (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Atomic single-row operations

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

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