DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server

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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

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.snowflake.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2007

2012

2014

1999

Current release

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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