DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

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.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Google

Oracle

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

2017

2007

2004

Current release

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

.Net
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

configurable

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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.

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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