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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  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 warehousingSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)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 tablesDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument store
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsSoftmotionsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release20162012201220122012
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoGPLv2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
server-lesshosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
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 indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingnono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
in-process shared libraryAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functionsnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'
TriggersnonononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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