DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LeanXcale vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LeanXcale vs. RethinkDB

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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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.leanxcale.com

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

LeanXcale

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2015

2009

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

C
Java
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes, with Cloud Functions

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

yes

users and table-level permissions

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