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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  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 accessDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Cloud-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 storeWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.dbase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.datastax.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaDataStaxAsthon TateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release20162016201119792012
Current release6.8, April 2020dBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP APIProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanonono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.limited functionality with using 'rules'
TriggersnonoyesnoCallbacks 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 serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rules
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeAlibaba Cloud Table StoreDatastax EnterprisedBASEFirebase Realtime Database
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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