DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LeanXcale

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

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Name

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#283	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#128	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

LeanXcale

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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.

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