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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Informix

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Informix

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
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 accessA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
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
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­informix
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaFatCloudGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.
Initial release20162016201220121984
Current release14.10.FC5, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC#C, C++ and Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedWindowshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenono infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernoyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Python
C#Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyes infovia applicationslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes
Triggersnonoyes infovia applicationsCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnoyesACID
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 tokensno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

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