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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BaseX vs. Firebird vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BaseX vs. Firebird vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputebasex.orgwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.basex.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualskairosdb.github.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAlibabaBaseX GmbHFirebird FoundationMonetDB BV
Initial release201620072000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20132004
Current release11.0, June 20245.0.0, January 20241.2.2, November 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavayesPSQLnoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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