DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigchainDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. BigchainDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RDFox

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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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.bigchaindb.com

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Alibaba

Event Store Limited

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

Current release

21.2, February 2021

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

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

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

limited functionality with using 'rules'

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

replication via a shared file system

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

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Roles, resources, and access types

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