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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LeanXcale vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LeanXcale vs. Lovefield

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceCloud 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.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­documentdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.leanxcale.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleLeanXcaleGoogle
Initial release20162019201720152014
Current release2.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infothrough Apache DerbySQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
Java
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersnonoyes, with Cloud FunctionsUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Using Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.no

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