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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Doris vs. CrateDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Doris vs. CrateDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolDistributed Database based on LuceneCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.57
Rank#244  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
cratedb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikicratedb.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduCrateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release20162016201720132012
Current release1.2.2, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP APIJDBC
MySQL client
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Python
Java.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanouser defined functionsuser defined functions (Javascript)limited functionality with using 'rules'
TriggersnonononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsyes, based on authentication and database rules
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeAlibaba Cloud Table StoreApache DorisCrateDBFirebase Realtime Database
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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