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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BaseX vs. Firebird vs. ITTIA vs. Newts

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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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#272	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

basex.org

www.firebirdsql.org

www.ittia.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.basex.org

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

BaseX GmbH

Firebird Foundation

ITTIA L.L.C.

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2007

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2007

2014

Current release

11.2, August 2024

5.0.1, August 2024

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Database file passwords

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