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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Badger vs. EDB Postgres vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Milvus

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.enterprisedb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasemilvus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperAlibabaDGraph LabsEnterpriseDBGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release20162017200520122019
Current release14, December 20212.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoCC++, Go
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.limited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
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
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeBadgerEDB PostgresFirebase Realtime DatabaseMilvus
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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