DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

phoenix.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/bigtable

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

phoenix.apache.org

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Initial release

2016

2014

2012

2010

2015

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic single-row operations

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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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